Edward E. Cornwell

TL;DR: African American, Hispanic, and uninsured patients have worse outcomes, but insurance status appears to have the stronger association with mortality after trauma.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the currently published surgical disparity literature in the United States found that patient factors such as insurance status and socioeconomic status need to be further explored, as studies indicated only a premature understanding of the relationship between racial disparities and SES.

TL;DR: The majority of first-year medical students at a single school had IAT scores consistent with implicit preference for white persons and possibly for those in the upper class, however, overall vignette-based clinical assessments were not associated with patient race or occupation, and no association existed between implicit preferences and the assessments.

TL;DR: There is significant variability in how risk-adjusted analyses using data from the National Trauma Data Bank are performed and best practices are needed to further improve the quality of research from the NTDB.

TL;DR: Patients with severe trauma transported by private means in this setting have better survival than those transported via the EMS system, and large prospective studies are needed to identify the factors responsible for this difference.