Background To date, no studies evaluated implicit bias among clinicians caring for children
with advanced heart failure. Objectives This study aims to evaluate implicit racial and …

Racial disparities have been reported among pediatric patients waitlisted for and
undergoing heart transplantation but have not been studied further upstream in the …

Background Previous studies have demonstrated that children in the United States who
were of racial and ethnic minorities have inferior waitlist and post-heart transplant (HT) …

Importance Racial bias is associated with the allocation of advanced heart failure therapies,
heart transplants, and ventricular assist devices. It is unknown whether gender and racial …

Background Research suggests stereotyping by clinicians as one contributor to racial and
gender-based health disparities. It is necessary to understand the origins of such biases …

Background Race influences medical decision making, but its impact on advanced heart
failure therapy allocation is unknown. We sought to determine whether patient race …

Background Social factors like race and insurance affect transplant outcomes. However, little
is known in pediatric heart transplantation. We hypothesized that race and insurance …

Background: Black heart transplant recipients have higher risk of mortality than White
recipients. Better understanding of this disparity, including subgroups most affected and …

Background: There is mixed evidence of racial and socioeconomic disparities in heart
transplant outcomes. Their underlying cause—and whether individual-or community-level …

Background While sex-related differences in transplant outcomes have been well
characterized amongst adults, there are no sex-specific pediatric heart transplant studies …