Efforts to eliminate racial disparities in the use of high-cost surgical procedures among the elderly were unsuccessful during the 1990s.
Sustained racial gaps in procedural access call for reevaluation of equity strategies; leaves open whether later interventions have succeeded.
For the decade of the 1990s, we found no evidence, either nationally or locally, that efforts to eliminate racial disparities in the use of high-cost surgical procedures were successful.
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