ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2022
Racial Disparities in 7-Day Readmissions from an Adult Hospital Medicine Service.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Perpetual Cycle of Racial Bias in Healthcare and Healthcare Education: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Pooled it
- Association between language discordance and unplanned hospital readmissions or emergency department revisits: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Pooled it
- Racial and Ethnic Inequalities Among Survivors of Critical Illness in the MIMIC-IV Database.Journal of intensive care medicine · 2026Article
- Handoffs and Equity: Impact of a Patient Distribution Model on Handoffs for Black Patients.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Emergency Department Utilization by Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Medicaid Status.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Assessing the influence of COVID-19 pandemic on thirty days readmission rate based on patient's demographics, substance use, and insurance.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
- Predictive Value of LACE Scores for Pediatric Readmissions.The Permanente journal · 2024Article
- Rapid (7-Day) Readmissions to an Inpatient Medical Service at a Tertiary, Academic Medical Center.The Brown journal of hospital medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealth systems have targeted hospital readmissions to promote health equity as there may be racial and ethnic disparities across different patient groups. However, 7-day readmissions have been understudied in adult hospital medicine.
designThis is a retrospective study. We performed multivariable logistic regression between patient race/ethnicity and 7-day readmission. Mediation analysis was performed for limited English proficiency (LEP) status. Subgroup analyses were performed for patients with initial admissions for congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cancer. PATIENTS: We identified all adults discharged from the adult hospital medicine service at UCSF Medical Center between July 2016 and June 2019. MAIN MEASURES: The primary outcome was 7-day all-cause readmission back to the discharging hospital.
resultsThere were 18,808 patients in our dataset who were discharged between July 2016 and June 2019. A total of 1,297 (6.9%) patients were readmitted within 7 days. Following multivariable regression, patients who identified as Black (OR 1.35, 95% CI 1.15-1.58, p <0.001) and patients who identified as Asian (OR 1.26, 95% CI 1.06-1.50, p = 0.008) had higher odds of readmission compared to white patients. Multivariable regression at the subgroup level for CHF, COPD, and cancer readmissions did not demonstrate significant differences between the racial and ethnic groups.
conclusionsBlack patients and Asian patients experienced higher rates of 7-day readmission than patients who identified as white, confirmed on adjusted analysis.
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