Context Black patients are more likely than white patients to die in the intensive care unit
with life-sustaining treatments. Differences in patient-and/or surrogate-provider …

Background—African Americans are more likely to be seen by physicians with less clinical
training or to be treated at hospitals with longer average times to acute reperfusion …

Racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health care are well documented. Promising
approaches to disparity reduction are increasingly described in literature published since …

Background: Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is 1 of
the 10 leading causes of hospitalization among adults in the United States. Objective: To …

Four million births occur annually in the United States and childbirth is a leading reason for
hospitalization. 1 Childbirth is the largest category for hospital admissions for commercial …

Importance It is not known whether racial/ethnic differences in receipt of palliative care are
attributable to different treatment of minorities or lower utilization of palliative care at the …

The global prevalence of depression has risen over the past three decades across all
socioeconomic groups and geographic regions, with a particularly rapid increase in …

Objective To examine racial/ethnic differences in the use of high-volume hospitals and
surgeons for 10 surgical procedures with documented associations between volume and …

In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar
patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push …

Purpose: To measure intensity of end-of-life (EOL) care for Medicare cancer patients and
variations in care by age, gender, and race. Patients and Methods: This retrospective cohort …