Measuring Local-Area Racial Segregation for Medicare Hospital Admissions

JAMA Network Open

Ellesse-Roselee L. Akré, PhD; Deanna Chyn, MPH; Heather A. Carlos, MS; Amber E. Barnato, MD, MPH, MS; Jonathan Skinner, PhD

ConsiderableracialsegregationexistsinUShospitalsthatcannotbeexplainedby where patients live. Approaches to measuring such segregation are limited.

TomeasurehowandwheresortingofolderBlackpatientstodifferenthospitalsoccurs within the same health care market.

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