Lack of a clinically significant impact of race on morbidity and mortality in abdominal surgery: an analysis of 186,466 patients from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database

摘要

BACKGROUND: Poorer surgical outcomes in black compared with white patients have been reported, but it remains unclear if race independently predicts worse outcomes. We investigated if blacks have poorer outcomes than whites following abdominal surgery at quality-seeking hospitals.