Posted on 08/18/2020 4:51:05 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(CNN)Black newborn babies in the United States are more likely to survive childbirth if they are cared for by Black doctors, but three times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors, a study has found. The mortality rate of Black newborns shrunk by between 39% and 58% when Black physicians took charge of the birth, according to the research, which laid bare how shocking racial disparities in human health can affect even the first hours of a person's life.
By contrast, the mortality rate for White babies was largely unaffected by the doctor's race. The findings support previous research, which has shown that, while infant mortality rates have fallen in recent decades, Black children remain significantly more likely to die early than their White counterparts.
Researchers from George Mason University analyzed data capturing 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015 for the new study, which was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, also known as PNAS. When cared for by White physicians, Black newborns were about three times more likely to die in the hospital than White newborns, the researchers found.
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That reminds me of test Oprah did on her show many years ago. She sent a white man into a Manhattan skyscraper. He walked right in. Then she sent a black man into that same building. He was questioned by security. So there you go, proof of racism. Only one thing The white man was dressed in a business suit and was carrying a briefcase. The black man was wearing sweats, basketball shoes, and a hoody.
Probably because the problem births are assigned to specialized doctors who are almost always white. No doubt issues like that were not controlled for in this race baiting “study.”
A possible alternate headline that doesn’t fill their agenda:
Black babies not looked after by white doctors, 10 times more likely to die.
16 posted on 8/18/2020, 4:58:01 PM by Varda
Were they both doctors?
No doubt a "study" that will quietly disappear after it is proven to be bullshit.
Of course, the lefties will only remember the original fake story.
Yesterday, it was Stanford dropping the MCAT.
Something is very, very fishy with this. There is no way this is true.
At some point CNN must be held to account for its anti social crop fest.
If the Mothers Baby Doctor Is an abortionist, yeah that baby will die.
Murdered in fact.
I haven’t read the study, but I would predict this: Those black newborns who wind up being taken care of by white physicians are those who are born with congenital birth defects, or who are born premature and need to be taken care of in neonatal ICUs.
“Stab the beast! Disembowel the driver of the next vehicle stopped at a protest! Eviscerate the whites! Ahhhh (euphorically), drink the BLOOD!!!”
When South Africa comes to America...even more so than it already has.
Probably because the white doctor got the most delicate cases.
Corollary: The United States has a high infant mortality rate because we try to save premature babies. Other countries don’t, and don’t count them as infant mortality.
pretzel logic(math)
Here is a link to their description of some of the analysis.
Controls: Owing to the fact that patient-physician matching is quasi-random, we include a host of controls. First, as insurance coverage can strongly influence both the provider available to the patient, and clinicalcare outcomes, we include controls for Medicaidstatus, Medicare status (which is rare but observed), and Self-Pay. Forms of private insurance (e.g. HMO, PPO) serve as the base case. Second, owing to the fact that individual patients present heterogeneously, and with idiosyncratic needs, we include controls for the top co-morbidities by frequency of occurrence. To do so we partial out the incidence rate of each comorbidity, viz. ICD-9 diagnosis, in the sample. We then create 0/1 indicators for the top 65 comorbidities as well as whether or not the child was born outside the hospital. Intuitively, these should capture the relative level of care required by the newborn. The same process is replicated for the analysis of birthing mothers. Third, owing to the fact that heterogeneity in care may be experienced by newborns over time and location, and that these differences may be correlated with the race of the physician (or their own race), we include hospital and time fixed effects. Time controls are defined at the quarter level, which is the smallest unit of time available from the AHCA. To account for the fact that organizational level ability to treat patients may evolve heterogeneously over time, and that different organizations may excel in the physician-patient matching process, we include hospital-year fixed effects.Finally, to capture physician level heterogeneity, we include physician fixed effects. This should allow us to capture within physician change in performance based on a change in the race of the patient.
Knowing what their actual control strategies were would be interesting.
They describe how they identified the race of the doctors, ending up with a sample pool. "Of the 8,045 physicians in the sample with identified race, 3,936 of them are white, 514 are black, 1,638 are Latino, and so on."
The doctors characterized as "and so on" consist of 1,957 individuals, or 24% of the total. The white physicians make up 49% of the sample, suggesting that among Florida pediatricians at least the white race is significantly under-represented relative to the population in Florida.
Before reaching a politically charged conclusion suggestive of some kind of bad intent among doctors, I would hope that the authors of the study looked very closely at how the unusual distribution of the sample population of physicians came to be.
Perhaps the controls that the authors used failed to account for whatever causes particular doctors to work in particular hospitals or take on particular patients that may affect the apparent success rates of their treatments.
As but one example, assignment of high risk births to doctors would not be quasi-random in many hospitals.
Epstein has nothing on CNN. Where one man was a vile, disgusting abomination, here we have an entire company.
Ita called abortion
Don’t forget the popular “crack babies”.
blacks do give birth to more preterm babies, which is a risk...not sure of the cause, but high BP is one thought....
at risk babies will be in the best most advanced hospitals, which usually means experienced drs....probably mostly white or asian....that is just a fact...
these people don't think the readers can think and will just swallow whatever pablum their selling, which most do, but thankfully not here on FR.
I have two biracial children and their mom had medical problems during pregnancy and the kids were born small and preterm....she was at the best of hospitals in a large university town....
btw, one of my favorite docs ever was a black female doctor from Chicago....she was a locum....excellent doctor in every way..
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