Disparities in hospitalization outcomes among African-American and White prostate cancer patients

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• 作者：Gurudatta Naik^a ; ^b ; Tomi Akinyemiju^a ; ^b ; ^{tomiakin@uab.edu}
• 关键词：Prostate cancer ; Disparities ; Race/ethnicity ; Mortality ; Outcomes ; Hospitalization ; Surgery
• 刊名：Cancer Epidemiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：46
• 期：Complete
• 页码：73-79
• 全文大小：634 K
• 卷排序：46

文摘

HCUP-NIS is a large database of more than 39 million all-payer inpatient care visits recorded across 1000 hospitals. We conducted a 3 tiered matching between African American patients and White patients who had similar demographic, clinical or treatment characteristics. Even after matching for above characteristics, length of stay and mortality was higher in African American patients compare to White patients.