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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 95, 期 12, 页码 2206-2212出版社
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046730
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Objective: We investigated whether the proportion of Black very low-birthweight (VLBW) infants treated by hospitals is associated with neonatal mortality for Black and White VLBW infants. Methods: We analyzed medical records linked to secondary data sources for 74050 Black and White VLBW,infants (501 g to 1500 g) treated by 332 hospitals participating in the Vermont Oxford Network from 1995 to 2000. Hospitals where more than 35% of VLBW infants treated were Black were defined as minority-serving. Results: Compared with hospitals where less than 15% of the VLBW infants were Black, minority-serving hospitals had significantly higher risk-adjusted neonatal mortality rates (White infants: odds ratio [OR] = 1.30, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.09, 1.56; Black infants: OR = 1.29, 95% CI = 1.01, 1.64; Pooled: OR = 1.28, 95% CI = 1.10, 1.50). Higher neonatal mortality in minority-serving hospitals was not explained by either hospital or treatment variables. Conclusions: Minority-serving hospitals may provide lower quality of care to VLBW infants compared with other hospitals. Because VLBW Black infants are disproportionately treated by minority-serving hospitals, higher neonatal mortality rates at these hospitals may contribute to racial disparities in infant mortality in the United States.
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