ArticleAnnals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches2020
Racial Disparities in Surgery: A Cross-Specialty Matched Comparison Between Black and White Patients.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Achieving Health Equity: Advancing Colorectal Surgery among Racial and Ethnic Minorities in America.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2025Review
- Variation of metabolic and bariatric surgery utilization by neighborhood socioeconomic status in Maryland.PloS one · 2025Article
- Squats, spinach, and soul: considering disparities in prehabilitation medicine before programmatic implementation.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Article
- A survey of surgical patients' perspectives and preferences towards general anesthesia techniques and shared-decision making.BMC anesthesiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objective: To determine if Black race is associated with worse short-term postoperative morbidity and mortality when compared to White race in a contemporary, cross-specialty-matched cohort. Background: Growing evidence suggests poorer outcomes for Black patients undergoing surgery. Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted comprising of all patients undergoing surgery in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program dataset between 2012 and 2018. One-to-one coarsened exact matching was conducted between Black and White patients. Primary outcome was rate of 30-day morbidity and mortality. Results: After 1:1 matching, 615,118 patients were identified. Black race was associated with increased rate of all-cause morbidity (odds ratio [OR] = 1.10, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.08-1.13, Conclusion and Relevance: This contemporary matched analysis demonstrates an association with increased morbidity, mortality, and readmissions for Black patients across surgical procedures and specialties.
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