Association of Patient-Level and Hospital-Level Factors With Timely Fracture Care by Race.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Racial disparities in treatment benchmarks have been documented among older patients with hip fractures. However, these studies were limited to patient-level evaluations.

Objective

To assess whether disparities in meeting fracture care time-to-surgery benchmarks exist at the patient level or at the hospital or institutional level using high-quality multicenter prospectively collected data; the study hypothesis was that disparities at the hospital-level reflecting structural health systems issues would be detected.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study was a secondary analysis of prospectively collected data in the PREP-IT (Program of Randomized trials to Evaluate Preoperative antiseptic skin solutions in orthopaedic Trauma) program from 23 sit

SUBMITTER: Gitajn IL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9713603 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature