Black heart attack patients wait longer for advanced treatment, study shows
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
A new study reveals why black heart attack patients wait longer for advanced treatment after arriving at some hospital emergency rooms. The differences in care may be explained by hospital quality, rather than the race of individual patients. Black patients were much more likely to go to slow hospitals than were whites, and as a result waited six hours longer to get life-saving procedures.