Race/Ethnicity and Geographic Access to Urban Trauma Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known about the distribution of life-saving trauma resources by racial/ethnic composition in US cities, and if racial/ethnic minority populations disproportionately live in US urban trauma deserts.

Objective

To examine racial/ethnic differences in geographic access to trauma care in the 3 largest US cities, considering the role of residential segregation and neighborhood poverty.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional, multiple-methods study evaluated census tract data from the 2015 American Community Survey in Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles (LA), California; and New York City (NYC), New York (N = 3932). These data were paired to geographic coordinates of all adult level I and II trauma centers within an 8.0-km buffer of each city. Be

SUBMITTER: Tung EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6484639 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature