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April 22, 2024

Measuring Equity in Readmission as an Assessment of Hospital Performance

Author Affiliations
  • 1Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Menlo Park, California
  • 2Division of Hospital Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
JAMA. 2024;331(19):1676-1677. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.4351

To the Editor A recent study1 that used Medicare administrative data reported disparities in readmission rates for Black compared with White beneficiaries and notable segregation in the care of Black and White patients among hospitals. These findings necessitate attention to additional structural factors contributing to the observed disparities, extending beyond between-hospital–level segregation to the community and other health system levels.

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