Black patients experience worse cardiac care, lower survival rates

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Black patients have lower rates of successful resuscitation and are less likely to survive an in-hospital cardiac arrest compared to white patients, according to a study in the Sept. 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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