Racial and ethnic disparities in interhospital transfer for complex emergency general surgical disease across the United States

Iantorno, Stephanie E.; Bucher, Brian T.; Horns, Joshua J.; McCrum, Marta L.

doi:10.1097/ta.0000000000003856

Racial and ethnic disparities in interhospital transfer for complex emergency general surgical disease across the United States

BACKGROUND Differential access to specialty surgical care can drive health care disparities, and interhospital transfer (IHT) is one mechanism through which access barriers can be realized for vulnerable populations. The association between race/ethnicity and IHT for patients presenting with comp…