Measuring Local-Area Racial Segregation for Medicare Hospital Admissions
Ellesse-Roselee L. Akré,
Deanna Chyn,
Heather A. Carlos
et al.
Abstract:ImportanceConsiderable racial segregation exists in US hospitals that cannot be explained by where patients live. Approaches to measuring such segregation are limited.ObjectiveTo measure how and where sorting of older Black patients to different hospitals occurs within the same health care market.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis retrospective cross-sectional study used 2019 Medicare claims data linked to geographic data. Hospital zip code markets were based on driving time. The local hospital segregation … Show more
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