A study found Black children were more likely than white children to die after common surgeries, mirroring similar disparities found in adults.
Nafiu and his team plans to review the data to see if other traditional explanations could account for these results such as socioeconomic status, type of hospital and postoperative recovery environment.
However, the observational study’s data is limiting. For example, his team doesn’t have access to the names of hospitals where patients received care. “That’s important because we know that not every hospital has the level of expertise and the level of support when complications occur,” he said. One thing Nafiu doesn’t want Black families to take away from the study is that hospitals and surgeries are unsafe for their children.
“Surgery is safe ... mortality rates are low,” he said. “Our paper is not suggesting that African American parents should stop bringing their children to the hospital… we want to highlight differences to see what we can do so we can better serve the children that we care for.”Health and patient safety coverage at USA TODAY is made possible in part by a grant from the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare. The Masimo Foundation does not provide editorial input.
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