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Yale Study Finds Minorities Less Likely to Use High-Volume Hospitals
New Haven, Conn. – African Americans are much less likely to receive surgical treatment at hospitals and from physicians who perform high volumes of specialized procedures, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study is published in Archives of Surgery, a journal of the American Medical Association.
The researchers examined tens of thousands of patients and found that African Americans were significantly less likely than their white peers to get surgery for many potentially life-threatening conditions at hospitals and by surgeons who performed the highest number of procedures for various cancers, cardiovascular diseases and hip replacement.
“Evidence suggests that the more procedures physicians and hospitals perform for a given condition, the better they will be at doing it,” said Andrew J. Epstein, Ph.D., assistant professor at School of Public Health and the study’s lead author. “Our study shows that many minorities with serious medical conditions are receiving treatment in hospitals and with surgeons who have performed fewer of the procedures needed to address their medical conditions.”
Yale Study Finds Minorities Less Likely to Use High-Volume Hospitals
New Haven, Conn. – African Americans are much less likely to receive surgical treatment at hospitals and from physicians who perform high volumes of specialized procedures, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study is published in Archives of Surgery, a journal of the American Medical Association.
The researchers examined tens of thousands of patients and found that African Americans were significantly less likely than their white peers to get surgery for many potentially life-threatening conditions at hospitals and by surgeons who performed the highest number of procedures for various cancers, cardiovascular diseases and hip replacement.
“Evidence suggests that the more procedures physicians and hospitals perform for a given condition, the better they will be at doing it,” said Andrew J. Epstein, Ph.D., assistant professor at School of Public Health and the study’s lead author. “Our study shows that many minorities with serious medical conditions are receiving treatment in hospitals and with surgeons who have performed fewer of the procedures needed to address their medical conditions.”
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