Reveals persistent racial disparities in access to lowest-mortality hospitals for open heart surgery, suggesting suboptimal referral patterns.
Despite the improvement of previously described disparities in the quality of hospitals treating Black and White patients, Black patients remain less likely to undergo CABG at their lowest available mortality hospitals, possibly due to suboptimal physician referrals.
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