Researchers find differences in infant morbidity-mortality rates in NYC hospitals

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Blacks and Hispanic very preterm infants are more likely to be born at hospitals with higher risk-adjusted neonatal morbidity-mortality rates, and these differences contribute to excess morbidity and mortality among black and Hispanic infants. These differences in hospital of birth explained 39.9 percent of the black-white disparity and 29.5 percent of the Hispanic-white disparity in outcomes.

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