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New data tells an old story of disparities in health care.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-NOV-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Despite awareness in the health care industry and the government of longstanding differences in medical care along racial lines, three studies in the August 18, 2005, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate that gaps still exist between the quality of health care that African-Americans receive and the quality of care afforded to white Americans.

The first study, examining gender and racial differences among almost 600,000 patients in the treatment of heart attacks from 1994 through 2002, showed that compared with white men, African-American men and women received less care, with African-American women having the highest death rate. No change in these differences was observed over the period studied.

The second study examined data on the rate, by race, that nine major surgical procedures were performed on 27 million Medicare recipients from 1992 through 2001. The operations studied are common and remedy a broad array of conditions, including heart disease and...

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