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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Black Patients Receive Substandard Cardiac Care, Resulting in Higher Death Risk

A startling recent study has concluded that for black patients in the USA their chances of surviving a cardiac arrest in hospital are less than other ethnic groups. But the study concludes that may have little to do with the patients themselves, but rather the facilities where they are treated at the time of their [...]