Disparities in Hospital Length of Stay Across Race and Ethnicity Among Patients With Heart Failure.

Jimmy Zheng Rebecca L Tisdale Paul A Heidenreich Alexander T Sandhu

Published in: Circulation. Heart failure (2022)

Differences between hospitals drive LOS disparities across race/ethnicity. Longer LOS among Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous American/Pacific Islander patients was not associated with improved quality of care.

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