Salvador Cruz-Flores, Gustavo J Rodriguez, Mohammad Rauf A Chaudhry, Ihtesham A Qureshi, Mohtashim A Qureshi, Paisith Piriyawat, Anantha R Vellipuram, Rakesh Khatri, Darine Kassar, Alberto Maud
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There is evidence that racial and ethnic differences among intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients exist. We sought to establish the occurrence of disparities in hospital utilization in the United States. METHODS: We identified ICH patients from United States Nationwide Inpatient Sample database for years 2006-2014 using codes (DX1 = 431, 432.0) from the International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition. We compared five race/ethnic categories: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and Others ( Native American and other) with regard to demographics, comorbidities, disease severity, in-hospital complications, in-hospital procedures, length of stay (LOS), total hospital charges, in-hospital mortality, palliative care, (PC) and do not resuscitate (DNR)...
March 14, 2019: International Journal of Stroke: Official Journal of the International Stroke Society