ArticleHealth services research2016
The Quality of Surgical and Pneumonia Care in Minority-Serving and Racially Integrated Hospitals.
Article in Health services research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Understanding the Influence of Income Inequality and Violent Crime on Police Fatal Shootings in U.S. Counties: 2015-2022.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Exploring the Association Between Minimum Wage Policy, Income Inequality, and Obesity Rates in US Counties.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Analyzing Fatal Police Shootings: The Roles of Social Vulnerability, Race, and Place in the U.S.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Appendicitis Hospitalization Care Costs Among Patients With Delayed Diagnosis of Appendicitis.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Improving health equity through health care systems research.Health services research · 2023Article
- The Association of Guideline-Concordant Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Melanoma at Minority-Serving Hospitals.Annals of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- The Association of Guideline-Concordant Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Melanoma at Minority-Serving Hospitals.Annals of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- A Bibliometric Analysis on Research Regarding Residential Segregation and Health Based on CiteSpace.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Use of hospitals in the New York City Metropolitan Region, by race: how separate? How equal in resources and quality?BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Hospital-level factors associated with death during pneumonia-associated hospitalization among adults-New York City, 2010-2014.PloS one · 2021Article
- Medicare's Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program Disproportionately Affects Minority-serving Hospitals: Variation by Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Disproportionate Share Hospital Payment Receipt.Annals of surgery · 2020Article
- Complex Patients and Quality of Care in Medicare Advantage.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Article
- Worse Nursing-Sensitive Indicators in Black-Serving Hospitals.Nursing researchArticle
- Variation of hospital-based adoption of care coordination services by community-level social determinants of health.Health care management reviewArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo explore the association between quality of care for surgical and pneumonia patients and the racial/ethnic composition of hospitals' patients. DATA SOURCE: Our primary data were surgical and pneumonia processes of care indicators from the 2012 Medicare Hospital Compare Data. We merged this data with information from the 2011 American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospitals. We computed the racial and ethnic composition of hospital patients using 2008 data from the Healthcare Costs and Utilization Project. STUDY
designThe sample included 1,198 acute care general hospitals from 11 states: AZ, CA, FL, IA, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, WA, and WI. We compared quality across minority-serving, racially integrated, and majority-white hospitals using unconditional quantile regression models controlling for hospital and market characteristics. PRINCIPAL
findingsWe found quality differences between the lowest performing minority-serving, racially integrated, and majority-white hospitals. As we moved from 10th to 90th quantile, the quality differences between hospitals by patients' racial composition disappeared. In other words, the best minority-serving and racially integrated hospitals performed as well as the best majority hospitals.
conclusionsEfforts to improve quality of care for patients in minority-serving and racially integrated hospitals should focus on the lowest performers.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.