Black Patients Less Likely To Get Referral For Home Health Care After Hospital Stay

December 7, 2023

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New research out of the University of Michigan shows that about 22% of Black patients are referred by discharge nurses to home health care compared to 27% of white patients. Black patients also had higher rates of readmission compared to their white counterparts. Lead author and professor Olga Yakusheva, Ph.D., comments on the influence of structural bias in healthcare in this article from the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

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