Racial Disparities in the Utilization of Shoulder Arthroplasty in the United States: Trends from 2011 to 2017.

Despite many efforts to reduce racial disparities in health-care utilization, the chasm in shoulder arthroplasty in the United States appears to be large and widening further. The exponential increase in utilization of shoulder arthroplasty has not been shared equally among races, and the disparities are larger than those reported in lower-extremity arthroplasty.