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Higher hospital quality narrows racial disparities in surgical outcomes for prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer. Black patients experienced worse outcomes and less access to top-tier hospitals compared to White patients.

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  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Racial disparities in surgical outcomes for solid organ cancers are well-documented.
  • Genitourinary cancer surgery outcomes have shown significant racial disparities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between hospital quality and racial disparities in achieving textbook outcomes for prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer surgery.
  • To assess if higher hospital quality reduces disparities in surgical outcomes between Black and White patients.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of national Medicare data (2017-2020) for radical cystectomy, nephrectomy, and prostatectomy.
  • Hospital quality assessed by predicted-to-expected ratio of textbook outcomes, independent of socioeconomic factors.
  • Textbook outcome defined by absence of in-hospital mortality, 30-day mortality, 30-day readmission, postoperative complications, and prolonged length of stay.

Main Results:

  • Increasing hospital quality correlated with narrowing racial disparities in achieving textbook outcomes.
  • A 0.1 increment in hospital quality score reduced Black-White disparities in textbook outcomes by 5.7% (OR: 1.06, p=0.026).
  • Black patients were less likely than White patients to receive care at the highest quality hospitals (45.2% vs. 49.5%, p<0.001).

Conclusions:

  • Black patients had lower odds of achieving textbook outcomes compared to White patients after genitourinary cancer surgery.
  • Increased hospital quality was associated with reduced racial disparities in surgical outcomes.
  • Improving access to high-quality care for Black patients is crucial to address these disparities.