Patient Daily June 22, 2021
Mortality rates for Black people would be 10% lower if health disparities in hospital quality did not exist, researchers found.
One in ten Black people who died of COVID-19 would still be alive today if racial health disparities in hospital quality did not exist, according to a group of researchers from Penn Medicine.
The study, conducted in partnership with OptumLabs and published in JAMA Network Open, showed that the COVID-19 mortality rate for Black patients would not have been so high if Black patients had been able to visit the same hospitals as their White counterparts. In other words, disparities in hospital quality may have contributed to the stark disparities in COVID-19 death rates.
“Our study reveals that Black patients...
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