• J Racial Ethn Health Disparities · Dec 2017

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    Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preventable Hospitalizations for Chronic Disease: Prevalence and Risk Factors.

    • Riddhi P Doshi, Robert H Aseltine, Alyse B Sabina, and Garth N Graham.
    • Department of Community Medicine and Healthcare, UConn Health, 263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6030, Farmington, 06030, CT, USA.
    • J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2017 Dec 1; 4 (6): 1100-1106.

    BackgroundHospitalizations due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) result in high morbidity and economic burden on the American healthcare system. Admissions due to chronic ACSCs, in particular, cost the American healthcare system over 30 billion dollars annually.Objectives And MethodsThis paper presents the current research on racial and ethnic disparities in the burden of hospitalizations due to chronic ACSCs. For this narrative review, we evaluated over 800 abstracts from MEDLINE and Google Scholar and cited 62 articles.ResultsSince 1998, racial and ethnic disparities in hospitalizations from chronic ACSCs have increased resulting in over 430,000 excess hospitalizations among non-Hispanic Blacks compared to non-Hispanic Whites.ConclusionsRacial disparities in chronic ACSCs hospitalizations are pervasive in the USA. There is need for more research on the pathways through which an individual's race modifies the risk for hospitalizations due to chronic ACSCs.

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