Race and insurance status as risk factors for trauma mortality.

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2008

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Haider, Adil H and Chang, David C and Efron, David T and Haut, Elliott R and Crandall, Marie and Cornwell, Edward E (2008) Race and insurance status as risk factors for trauma mortality. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 143 (10). pp. 945-949.

Abstract

Race and insurance status each independently predicts outcome disparities after trauma. African American, Hispanic, and uninsured patients have worse outcomes, but insurance status appears to have the stronger association with mortality after trauma.

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