Black patients have lower rate of survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 19:21
in Health & Medicine
Compared with white patients, black patients who have an in-hospital cardiac arrest are significantly less likely to survive to hospital discharge, having lower rates of successful resuscitation and postresuscitation survival, although much of this survival difference was associated with the hospital in which black patients received care, according to a study in the September 16 issue of JAM