{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Gibson CB"],"funding":["AHRQ HHS","NHLBI NIH HHS"],"pagination":["e010778"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11745697"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["18(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Differences in the quality of hospitals where Black and White patients receive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery have been documented. We examined the contributions of physician networks to the gap.<h4>Methods</h4>This was a cross-sectional study of all Medicare fee-for-service Black and White patients undergoing elective CABG during 2017 to 2019; the primary care physicians and cardiologists treating them for 12 months before surgery (the patients' physician network); and CABG-performing hospitals within 100 miles of each patient. We measured the strength of ties between treating physicians and hospitals as the number of shared prior CABG patients (24 months before surgery). Conditional logit models assessed the relationship between race, prior physician-ho"],"journal":["Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes"],"pubmed_title":["Referral Networks, Racial Inequity, and Hospital Quality for Open Heart Surgery."],"pmcid":["PMC11745697"],"funding_grant_id":["U19 HS024067","R01 HL148420"],"pubmed_authors":["Popescu I","Schuler MS","Damberg CL","Gibson CB","Matthews LJ","Escarce JJ","Zhang S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Referral Networks, Racial Inequity, and Hospital Quality for Open Heart Surgery.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Differences in the quality of hospitals where Black and White patients receive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery have been documented. We examined the contributions of physician networks to the gap.<h4>Methods</h4>This was a cross-sectional study of all Medicare fee-for-service Black and White patients undergoing elective CABG during 2017 to 2019; the primary care physicians and cardiologists treating them for 12 months before surgery (the patients' physician network); and CABG-performing hospitals within 100 miles of each patient. We measured the strength of ties between treating physicians and hospitals as the number of shared prior CABG patients (24 months before surgery). Conditional logit models assessed the relationship between race, prior physician-ho","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Jan","modification":"2026-06-06T07:39:11.657Z","creation":"2025-04-03T23:58:12.685Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11745697","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39727033"],"doi":["10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.123.010778","10.1161/circoutcomes.123.010778"]}}