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Investigating racial and ethnic disparities in interhospital transfer within an academic integrated healthcare system: A matched cohort study.

Shannon EM, Fiskio J, Yoon C, Schnipper JL, Mueller SK. Investigating racial and ethnic disparities in interhospital transfer within an academic integrated healthcare system: A matched cohort study. Journal of hospital medicine. 2024 Feb 27.

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Abstract:

The presence of racial and ethnic disparities in interhospital transfer (IHT) within integrated healthcare systems has not been fully explored. We matched Black and Latinx patients admitted to community hospitals in our integrated healthcare system between June 2015 and December 2019 to White patients by origin hospital, age, time of year, and disease severity. We performed conditional logistic regression models to determine if race or ethnicity was associated with IHT in one of the tertiary academic medical centers in the system, adjusting for covariates. The sample contained 107,895 admissions (82.6% White, 7.8% Black, and 9.6% Latinx). Transfer rates were 2.2% versus 2.2% after the Black/White match and 1.8% versus 1.8% after the Latinx/White match. After adjusting for covariates, there was no association between race or ethnicity and IHT (Black vs. White odds ratio [OR]: 0.87, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.72-1.07; Latinx vs. White OR: 1.05, 95% CI: 0.79-1.40). This may be due to reduced barriers to transfer with an integrated healthcare system.




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