Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals that Disproportionately Treat African-Americans

Circulation
Skinner JS, Chandra A. Staiger D. Lee J, McClellan M

African-Americans are more likely be seen by physicians with less clinical training or treated at hospitals with deficient times to acute reperfusion therapies. Less is known about differences in health outcomes. This paper compares risk-adjusted mortality following Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) between U.S. hospitals with high and low fractions of elderly black AMI patients.