Open AccessExplaining Racial Disparities in Child Asthma Readmission Using a Causal Inference Approach
Author(s) -
Andrew F. Beck,
Bin Huang,
Katherine A. Auger,
Patrick Ryan,
Chen Chen,
Robert S. Kahn
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 2168-6211
pISSN - 2168-6203
DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.0269
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , causal inference , inference , immunology , artificial intelligence , pathology , computer science
Childhood asthma is characterized by disparities in the experience of morbidity, including the risk for readmission to the hospital after an initial hospitalization. African American children have been shown to have more than 2 times the hazard of readmission when compared with their white counterparts.
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