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bypass surgery, hemodialysis and kidney transplant, proper diagnostictests for cancer, appropriate cardiac medications, and analgesicmedications after bone fractures.1,2,15 Additionally, they aremore likely to receive a lower quality of clinical service.1,2,15Although these aforementioned studies have limiting factors, it isapparent that racial disparities remain important in United Stateshealth care. This problem becomes critical in the outcomes of SCIpatients when considering that minorities continue to experiencehigh rates of disability and limited access to health care providersand rehabilitation programs.12,16 However, no recent studies to datehave looked at how SCI affects hospital length of stay (LOS) as anoutcome measure. This variable is important as an outcome measureafter SCI because hospital LOS has been shown to be related toseverity of injury, degree of disability at admission, age, race, andother patient demographic characteristics.17 As such, the goal ofthis study was to examine the impact of race on hospital LOS, theoccurrence of in-hospital complications, and patient dispositionafter SCI using the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).
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