... long-term survival, race does not. Racial disparities in incidence, severity, methods of treatment and ... equivalent long-term outcomes among racial groups after liver transplantation, access to care ...
... patients within most physician panels. The authors also found no association between the magnitude of the racial disparities in a physician's panel of patients and the number of black patients treated ...
... by race, sex, age, type of injury and state.
The researchers found that the reduction in racial disparity resulted from a decrease in motor vehicle crashes and firearm suicides among black ...
... racial disparities in radiation therapy. Led by Grace Li Smith, M.D., Ph.D., a ... so comprehensive, allowed us to determine the extent to which racial disparities in radiation therapy affected patients ...
... , vitamin D deficiency, diabetes, diet and occupational exposure to pollutants, according to the report.
On the other hand, racial disparity in overall cancer death rates remains. In 2005, the last ...
... of emergency department visits, and overall worse quality of life. These findings point to genetic differences that lead to poor responses to drug therapy as the source of these racial disparities.
... earlier and have been larger in proportionate terms for whites than for African Americans.
"Racial disparities in cancer mortality have decreased for tobacco related cancers but continue to increase ...
... not attend a follow-up consultation with a medical oncologist was associated with a reduction in racial disparities in adjuvant therapy, according to a non-randomized study published in the November ...
... of Medicare and other insurers requiring patients to give up cancer treatment contribute to racial disparities in hospice use," the authors wrote. "Moreover, these criteria do not select those ...
... often considered the most important of factors underlying racial disparities.
Farhood Farjah, M.D ... important causal factors underlying health disparities, the findings do suggest that other factors (i ...
... of Minnesota Institute on Race and Poverty shows that the Twin Cities has some of the nation's worst racial disparities in mortgage lending. In the Twin Cities, those hardest hit by the subprime ...
Racial disparities in the delivery of healthcare occur even among insured populations with access to care. This suggests that some of the differences in health care utilization among different racial ...
... Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project reveal potential new targets for reducing racial ... designed to produce clinical data and identify racial disparities in prostate cancer, to help determine ...
... in a decreased mortality from this highly prevalent malignancy and whether the narrowing of the racial disparity in the presentation of advanced prostate cancer is ultimately accompanied by similar ...
... , a new University of Missouri study published in Public Relations Review has found that highlighting racial disparities in news releases increases coverage of health stories in black newspapers, ...
