Racial disparities found in major surgeries at quality-improvement hospitals

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 19:50 in Health & Medicine

Considerable racial disparities exist in surgical outcomes for black and Hispanic patients undergoing major cancer and non-cancer surgeries in US hospitals, even among institutions that have already enrolled in a national surgical quality improvement initiative.Those findings contrast with prior investigations that suggest there has been an easing of racial disparities in American health care.

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