Racial Disparities and Gastrointestinal Cancer—How Structural and Institutional Racism in the US Health System Fails Black Patients
Menée aux Etats-Unis à partir de données portant sur 565 124 patients atteints d'un cancer gastrointestinal traité par chirurgie, cette étude de cohorte rétrospective analyse les disparités ethniques dans la qualité des soins reçus
In their report in JAMA Network Open, Bakkila et al1 analyzed the data of 565 124 individuals registered in the National Cancer Database from 2004 to 2017 and documented large, systemic, and unexplainable racial and ethnic differences in the rates of standard treatments such as adjunct chemotherapy and radiotherapy for gastrointestinal (GI) tract cancer in the US. Their work documented racial and ethnic inequalities in several quality indicators including but not limited to the rate of cancer-free resection margins.
JAMA Network Open , commentaire en libre accès, 2021