• Ying Xian, Robert G Holloway, Eric E Smith, Lee H Schwamm, Mathew J Reeves, Deepak L Bhatt, Phillip J Schulte, Margueritte Cox, DaiWai M Olson, Adrian F Hernandez, Barbara L Lytle, Kevin J Anstrom, Gregg C Fonarow, and Eric D Peterson.
• From the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (Y.X., P.J.S., M.C., A.F.H., B.L.L., E.D.P.); Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY (R.G.H.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (E.E.S.); Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (L.H.S.); Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing (M.J.R.); Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.L.B.); Neurology & Neurotherapeutics, Neurological Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (D.M.O.); and Division of Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles (G.C.F.). ying.xian@duke.edu.
• Stroke. 2014 Nov 1;45(11):3243-50.

Background And PurposeAlthough racial/ethnic differences in care are pervasive in many areas of medicine, little is known whether intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) care processes or outcomes differ by race/ethnicity.MethodsWe analyzed 123 623 patients with ICH (83 216 white, 22 147 black, 10 519 Hispanic, and 7741 Asian) hospitalized at 1199 Get With The Guidelines-Stroke hospitals between 2003 and 2012. Multivariable logistic regression with generalized estimating equation was used to evaluate the association among race, stroke performance measures, and in-hospital outcomes.ResultsRelative to white patients, black, Hispanic, and Asian patients were significantly younger, but more frequently had more severe stroke (median National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, 9, 10, 10, and 11, respectively; P<0.001). After adjustment for both patient and hospital-level characteristics, black patients were more likely to receive deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis, rehabilitation assessment, dysphagia screening, and stroke education, but less likely to have door to computed tomographic time ≤25 minutes and smoking cessation counseling than whites. Both Hispanic and Asian patients had higher odds of dysphagia screening but lower odds of smoking cessation counseling. In-hospital all-cause mortality was lower for blacks (23.0%), Hispanics (22.8%), and Asians (25.3%) than for white patients (27.6%). After risk adjustment, all minority groups had lower odds of death, of receiving comfort measures only or of being discharged to hospice. In contrast, they were more likely to exceed the median length of stay when compared with white patients.ConclusionsAlthough individual quality indicators in ICH varied by race/ethnicity, black, Hispanic, and Asian patients with ICH had lower risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality than white patients with ICH.© 2014 American Heart Association, Inc.

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