White patients benefit more than blacks in surviving surgical complications at teaching hospitals

Monday, February 16, 2009 - 17:07 in Health & Medicine

Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur in white patients, not black patients.

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