Observational studyJournal of clinical anesthesia2017
The effect of race on postsurgical ambulatory medical follow-up among United States Veterans.
Observational study in Journal of clinical anesthesia, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The impact of health literacy on shared decision making before elective surgery: a propensity matched case control analysis.BMC health services research · 2018Article
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Abstract
STUDY
objectiveTo investigate the association between self-identified black or African American race and the presence of ambulatory internal medicine follow-up in the year after surgery. Our hypothesis was that among US Veterans who presented for surgery, black or African American race would be associated with a decreased likelihood to receive ambulatory internal medicine follow-up in the year after surgery.
designRetrospective observational.
settingAll US Veterans Affairs hospitals. PATIENTS: A total of 236,200 Veterans undergoing surgery between 2006 and 2011 who were discharged within 10 days of surgery and survived the full 1-year exposure period.
interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS: Attendance at an internal medicine follow-up appointment within 1 year after surgery. MAIN
resultsAfter controlling for year of surgery, age, age ≥65 years, sex, Hispanic ethnicity, and number of inpatient days, black or African American patients were 11% more likely to lack internal medicine follow-up after surgery (adjusted odds ratio, 1.11; 95% confidence interval, 1.06-1.16). When accounting for geographic region, this difference remained significant at the Bonferoni-corrected P < .007 level only in the Midwest United States where black or African American patients were 28% more likely to lack medical follow-up in the year after surgery (odds ratio, 1.28; 95% confidence interval, 1.16-1.42; P < .0001).
conclusionsThe disparity in ambulatory medical follow-up following surgery among black or African American vs nonblack or non-African American Veterans in the Midwest region deserves further study and may lead to important quality improvement initiatives aimed specifically at this population.
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