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Health Affairs, 27, no. 2 (2008): 518-527 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.518 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Do Hospitals Provide Lower-Quality Care To Minorities Than To Whites?

Darrell J. Gaskin, Christine S. Spencer, Patrick Richard, Gerard F. Anderson, Neil R. Powe and Thomas A. LaVeist

Using three years of state inpatient discharge data from thirteen states, we computed, for each hospital, race/ethnicity–specific quality measures using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality inpatient quality indicators and patient safety indicators. We found that risk-adjusted quality indicators for blacks, Hispanics, and Asians were not statistically worse than corresponding quality indicators for whites in the same hospital. We conclude that when whites and minorities are admitted to the hospital for the same reason or receive the same hospital procedure, they receive the same quality of care. Only a few hospitals provide lower quality of care to minorities than to whites.

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