Use of hospitals in the New York City Metropolitan Region, by race: how separate? How equal in resources and quality?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although racial and ethnic minorities disproportionately use some hospitals, hospital-based racial and ethnic composition relative to geographic region and its association with quality indicators has not been systematically analyzed.

Methods

We used four race and ethnicity categories: non-Hispanic white (NHW), non-Hispanic black (NHB), Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander/Alaskan Native/American Indian (API/AIAN), as well as a combined non-NHW category, from the 2010 (latest year publicly available) Medicare Institutional Provider & Beneficiary Summary public use file for 84 hospitals in the New York City region. We assessed the relative distribution of race and ethnicity across hospitals grouped at different geographic levels (region, county, hospital referral re

SUBMITTER: Liu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365444 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature