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Racial Disparity in Hospital Deaths
A study by Jerris Hedges, dean of Manoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine, finds that Asian and African-American patients have a higher risk of dying than Caucasians do after they are injured and admitted to hospitals.
The majority of the patients suffered injuries to their head, legs, chest, spleen, or liver. Caucasian patients were likely to die in the hospital following a significant injury at a rate of 1.5 percent. Asians (including Pacific Islanders) and African-Americans died at the higher rates, of 2.0 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively. The results were published in Medical Care.
"The poorer survival outcome for Asian and Pacific Island and African-American patients is concerning," says Hedges. "I hope that in Hawai'i, we can re-visit the status of trauma care and strengthen the efforts to save the lives of those with major injury through a systems approach to trauma care delivery."