Racial differences limit access to surgery for Black, Latino, and Asian children : Newsroom
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 28, 2022
Ethan Sanford, M.D. Photo credit: Children's Medical Center Dallas
DALLAS – Nov. 28, 2022 – The number of surgeries performed on Black, Latino, and Asian children is significantly lower than among white children in the United States, a UT Southwestern study has found. These differences may reflect inequities in access to surgical care.
The study, published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, examined surgery data for more than 200,000 children from the 1999-2018 National Health Interview Surveys. Even after adjusting for . . .
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