Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Longer-term Outcomes Among Emergency General Surgery Patients: The Unique Experience of Universally Insured Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether racial/ethnic disparities in 30/90/180-day mortality, major morbidity, and unplanned readmissions exist among universally insured older adult (≥65 years) emergency general surgery patients; vary by diagnostic category; and can be explained by variations in geography, teaching status, age-cohort, and a hospital's percentage of minority patients.

Summary of background data

As the US population ages and discussions surrounding the optimal method of insurance provision increasingly enter into national debate, longer-term outcomes are of paramount concern. It remains unclear the extent to which insurance changes disparities throughout patients' postacute recovery period among older adults.

Methods

Survival analysis of 2008 to 2014 Medicare d

SUBMITTER: Zogg CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5783796 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature