ArticleAnnals of emergency medicine2019
Disparities in Emergency Department Visits Among Collocated Racial/Ethnic Medicare Enrollees.
Article in Annals of emergency medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05738031 (Investigating Incidental Pulmonary Nodules in Underserved Communities), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Investigating Incidental Pulmonary Nodules in Underserved Communities
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Ambulatory Care Fragmentation, Emergency Department Visits, and Race: a Nationwide Cohort Study in the U.S.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Effects of Part D Star Ratings on racial and ethnic disparities in health care costs.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2023Article
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- Ambulance diversion and ED destination by race/ethnicity: evaluation of Massachusetts' ambulance diversion ban.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Setting Choice for Adults Seeking Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Testing.Medical care · 2022Observational
- Beyond Black and White: Mapping Misclassification of Medicare Beneficiaries Race and Ethnicity.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2021Article
- Association of Race/Ethnicity With Emergency Department Destination of Emergency Medical Services Transport.JAMA network open · 2019Article
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Abstract
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objectiveWe estimate emergency department (ED) use differences across Medicare enrollees of different race/ethnicity who are residing in the same zip codes.
methodsIn this retrospective cohort study, we stratified all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 66 years and older (2006 to 2012) by residence zip code and identified zip codes with racial/ethnic diversity, defined as containing at least 1 enrollee from each of 3 racial/ethnic groups: Hispanics, (non-Hispanic) blacks, and (non-Hispanic) whites. Our primary study population consisted of a stratified random sample of approximately equal number of each racial/ethnic group from each zip code with racial/ethnic diversity (N=1,563,631). We identified ED visits, comorbidities, primary-care-treatable status, and patient disposition. We characterized socioeconomic status by zip code poverty rate. The main outcome measure was the ratio of ED visit rate (number of visits/100 person-years) between each minority group and whites.
resultsOf 38,423 zip codes nationally, 41% met the racial/ethnic diversity criterion; these zip codes contained 85% of the Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. Among enrollees from zip codes with racial/ethnic diversity, the ED visit rate among whites was 45.4 (95% confidence interval 45.1 to 45.6), and the ED visit rate ratio was 1.34 (95% confidence interval 1.33 to 1.36) among blacks and 1.23 (95% confidence interval 1.22 to 1.24) among Hispanics. ED visit rate ratios for both minority groups were greater than 1.00 among all subgroups by age, comorbidity, zip code poverty rate, urban/rural area, and primary-care-treatable and disposition status.
conclusionAmong Medicare enrollees, blacks and Hispanics had higher ED use rates than whites overall and among subgroups by demographics and socioeconomic status.
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