Race and insurance status associated with death from trauma

Monday, October 20, 2008 - 17:07 in Health & Medicine

African American and Hispanic patients are more likely to die following trauma than white patients, and uninsured patients have a higher death risk when compared with those who have health insurance, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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