Black patients more likely to be readmitted after hip, knee replacement surgery

Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

A new study found that black and Hispanic patients were 62 and 50 percent, respectively, more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after total joint replacement surgery compared to white patients.

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