Racial Differences in Palliative Care Use After Stroke in Majority-White, Minority-Serving, and Racially Integrated U.S. Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Racial/ethnic differences in palliative care resource use after stroke have been recognized, but it is unclear whether patient or hospital characteristics drive this disparity. We sought to determine whether palliative care use after intracerebral hemorrhage and ischemic stroke differs between hospitals serving varying proportions of minority patients.

Design

Population-based cross-sectional study.

Setting

Inpatient hospital admissions from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample between 2007 and 2011.

Patients

A total of 46,735 intracerebral hemorrhage and 331,521 ischemic stroke cases.

Interventions

Palliative care use.

Measurements and main results

Intracerebral hemorrhage and ischemic stroke admissions were identified from the Nationwide In

SUBMITTER: Faigle R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5693642 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature