Health Equity

Fatal surgeries among Black youth force researchers to examine medical bias

Abstract: Black children are 3.4 times more likely to die within a month after surgery than their white peers, a study shows.

Publication: ABC News

Date Published: August 12, 2020

Author(s): Karma Allen

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