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An Examination of Racial Disparities in Inpatient Consultations
Dylan Balter1, Amanda Bertram1, C Matthew Stewart1
1From the Bloomberg School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Objective:
To determine whether racial disparities occurred among specialty and allied health inpatient consultations for patients admitted to adult hospital services at an academic hospital.
Methods:
A retrospective data analysis of the first 2000 patients, ages 18 years or older, admitted to an academic hospital.
Results:
No regression model demonstrated any statistically significant relation between race and type of inpatient consultation received. No statistically significant difference in the number of inpatient consultations was found.
Conclusions:
Processes within the healthcare setting studied did not contribute to racial differences in consultation services. Our findings suggest that implicit racial bias may not be a factor when ordering consultations, but the findings are more likely affected by more appropriate factors such as the patient's age, length of stay, and complexity/severity of illness score.
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