HEALTH-CARE FOR BLACK AND POOR HOSPITALIZED MEDICARE PATIENTS
HEALTH-CARE FOR BLACK AND POOR HOSPITALIZED MEDICARE PATIENTS
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DOI:
10.1001/jama.271.15.1169
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发表时间:
1994-04-20
影响因子:
120.7
通讯作者:
KEELER, EB
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作者:
KAHN, KL;PEARSON, ML;KEELER, EB
Objective.-To analyze whether elderly patients who are black or from poor neighborhoods receive worse hospital care than other patients, taking account of hospital effects and using validated measures of quality of care.Design.-We compare quality of care provided to insured, hospitalized Medicare patients who are black or live in poor neighborhoods as compared with others, using simple and multivariable comparisons of clinically detailed measures of sickness at admission, quality, and outcomes.Setting.-Two hundred ninety-seven acute care hospitals in 30 areas within five states.Patients or Other Participants.-The sample includes a nationally representative sample of 9932 patients 65 years of age or older who lived at home prior to hospitalization for congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, or stroke.Interventions.-This was an observational study.Main Outcome Measures.-Processes of care, length of stay, instability at discharge, discharge destination, and mortality.Results.-Within rural, urban nonteaching, and urban teaching hospitals, patients who are black or from poor neighborhoods have worse processes of care and greater instability at discharge than other patients (P