Health Equity

Association of a New Trauma Center With Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Access to Trauma Care

Abstract: This observational study the assesses the association of a new trauma center with transport times for trauma patients as a measure of prompt access to care and specifically examines changes in racial, ethnic, and income disparities in transport times.

Publication: JAMA Surgery

Date Published: November 25, 2020

Author(s): Ali B. Abbasi, MD, MSci, MPhil, Jay Dumanian, MD, Samuel Okum, Darlington Nwaudo, BA, Daniel Lee, MPH, MBA, Priya Prakash, MD and Peter Bendix, MD, MPH

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