Background: Self-measured blood pressure monitoring is necessary for successful management of hypertension. However, disparities in blood pressure control persist, with low-income patients and racial and ethnic minorities more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension. These patients are also at increased risk for digital exclusion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 public health emergency catalyzed widespread adoption of both video- and audio-only telemedicine visits. This proliferation highlighted inequities in use by age, race and ethnicity, and preferred language. Few studies have investigated how differences in health system telemedicine implementation affected these inequities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Substance-use-related cardiac arrest (SURCA) is a public health crisis, contributing to high mortality and severe neurological disability, particularly affecting young adults. This study aims to characterize the demographic and multimodal neurological prognostication features of patients with SURCA.
Methods: This retrospective study included patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who presented to an urban academic safety net hospital between July 2016 and April 2022 and were comatose on admission.
Importance: The five 1997 Office of Management and Budget races in the US include American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and White, with Hispanic ethnicity. Despite the Affordable Care Act mandating Office of Management and Budget-based collecting and reporting standards, race and ethnicity publishing in medical journals is inconsistent, despite being necessary to achieve health equity.
Objective: To quantify race and ethnicity reporting rates and calculate representation quotients (RQs) in published oncology clinical trials.
Background: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, older Asians have experienced a rise in racism and discrimination based on their race and ethnicity. This study examines how anti-Asian hate impacts older Asians' mental, social, and physical health.
Methods: From March 18, 2022 to January 24, 2023, we conducted a cross-sectional survey study of community-dwelling Asian/Asian American adults aged ≥50 years from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Background: Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (NHPI) patients with head and neck cancer are often aggregated with Asian individuals despite evidence of heterogeneous health outcomes and mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the association of race with unplanned 30-day hospital readmission rate after head and neck surgery across the five federally recognized racial categories.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study used a national hospital-based database and included patients ≥18 years old with diagnostically confirmed, nonmetastatic head and neck cancer of any subsite treated surgically between 2004 and 2017.