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Racial, Ethnic, and Payer Disparities in Adverse Safety Events: Are there Differences across Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades?
June 21, 2023
Gangopadhyaya A, Pugazhendhi A, Austin M et al. Washington DC: Leapfrog Group; 2023.
Adverse events in patients of color continue to be connected with systematic racism and biases. This report summarizes the distribution of patient safety events among Black and Hispanic patients across 2,019 Leapfrog patient safety graded hospitals and found that they experience adverse surgical events at a higher level than white patients.
