Open AccessPost-Discharge Adverse Events Among African American and Caucasian Patients of an Urban Community Hospital
Author(s) -
William Costello,
Liying Zhang,
Jeffrey L. Schnipper,
Dennis Tsilimingras
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2197-3792
pISSN - 2196-8837
DOI - 10.1007/s40615-020-00800-z
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , logistic regression , ambulatory , epidemiology , prospective cohort study , demography , public health , cohort , hospital discharge , gerontology , physics , nursing , sociology , optics
Patient safety during the post-discharge period is a major public health concern. Racial differences on incidence and risk factors associated with post-discharge adverse events (AEs) are understudied. The aim of the study was to examine the differences on the incidence of post-discharge AEs and the associated risk factors between African American and Caucasian patients.