Thursday, 29 May 2014

Blacks Survive Trauma Better: Study

Young black trauma patients are significantly more likely than whites to die from injuries, older ones, above age 65, are 20 percent are more likely to survive, finds a study at Johns Hopkins researchers. A report on the research appears online May 28 in iJAMA Surgery/i. "We have long found it vexing that minority patients consistently do worse, even in treatment for trauma that seems to leave little room for bias," says study leader Adil Haider, ...




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