Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma - a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial and social hardships, according to a new study. Researchers at Cincinnati ...
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Financial and social hardships are the major reasons black children and teens are twice as likely as whites to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at nearly 800 asthma patients, aged 1 to ...
Tags: Financial and social hardships, asthma, payment reform
Racial disparities in patients' death risk after heart bypass surgery are affected by the quality of the hospital in which the surgery is performed, a large new study suggests. Racial disparities in death rates after bypass surgery are ...
Tags: Racial Disparities, Heart Surgery, Deaths After Heart Surgery