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Differences in Hospital Stays With Operating Room Procedures by Patient Race and Ethnicity, 2019

Audrey J. Weiss, H. Joanna Jiang
In: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Briefs [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2006 Feb. Statistical Brief #297.
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Review

Differences in Hospital Stays With Operating Room Procedures by Patient Race and Ethnicity, 2019

Audrey J. Weiss et al.

Excerpt

This HCUP Statistical Brief presents statistics on inpatient stays with operating room (OR) procedures by patient race and ethnicity—Asian/Pacific Islander non-Hispanic (NH), Black NH, Hispanic, and White NH—using weighted estimates from the 2019 National Inpatient Sample (NIS). The population rate of stays with OR procedures is presented by patient race and ethnicity for nonmaternal and maternal stays. The rate for nonmaternal stays is based on the population of men and women of any age. The rate for maternal stays is limited to the population of women aged 15–49 years. The rate of maternal and nonmaternal stays with the five most common OR procedures also is provided. Finally, the rate of nonmaternal stays with OR procedures overall and for the 10 most common OR procedures is presented by patient age group. Because of the large sample size of the NIS data, small differences can be statistically significant. Thus, only differences greater than or equal to 10 percent are discussed in the text.

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