Open AccessImpact of racial-ethnic minority status and systemic vulnerabilities on time to acute TBI rehabilitation admission in an urban public hospital setting.
Author(s) -
Armando Fuentes,
Chelsea Schoen,
Rebecca R Kulzer,
Coralynn Long,
Tamara Bushnik,
Joseph F. Rath
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
rehabilitation psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.673
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1939-1544
pISSN - 0090-5550
DOI - 10.1037/rep0000260
Subject(s) - rehabilitation , ethnic group , medicine , psycinfo , traumatic brain injury , injury prevention , acute care , poison control , public health , suicide prevention , occupational safety and health , physical therapy , emergency medicine , health care , medline , psychiatry , nursing , pathology , sociology , economic growth , anthropology , political science , law , economics
Racial/ethnic minorities and other vulnerable social groups experience health care disparities. There is a lack of research exploring how time to acute rehabilitation admission is impacted by race/ethnicity and other marginalizing systemic vulnerabilities. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether race/ethnicity and other sociodemographic vulnerabilities impact expediency of acute rehabilitation admission following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Research Method/Design: This study is a secondary analysis of an existing dataset of 111 patients admitted for acute TBI rehabilitation at an urban public hospital. Patient groups were defined by race/ethnicity (People of color or White) and vulnerable group status (high or low vulnerable group membership [VGM]).