Race and insurance status as risk factors for trauma mortality.

Haider, Adil H; Chang, David C; Efron, David T; Haut, Elliott R; Crandall, Marie; Cornwell, Edward E

Race and insurance status as risk factors for trauma mortality.

Publication or External Link

http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/143/10/945

Date

2008

Authors

Citation

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.

DRUM DOI

https://doi.org/10.13016/4bhe-dzu3

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.