Racial disparities in acute care utilization among individuals with myasthenia gravis by Cynthia Qi, Pushpa Narayanaswami, Ashley E. L. Anderson, Deborah Gelinas, Yuebing Li, Jeffrey T. Guptill, Dakshinamoorthy Amirthaganesan, Charlotte Ward, Rupesh Panchal, Amit Goyal, Glenn Phillips

“…Multivariable regression models were used to assess the association between acute care utilization and race/ethnicity, insurance, exacerbation at index, and other covariates.ResultsA total of 7,058 patients met the study inclusion criteria, of whom 57% (n = 4,052) identified as Caucasian, 6% (n = 445) African American, 3% (n = 235) Hispanic, 1% (n = 94) Asian, and 32% (n = 2,232) with missing race/ethnicity information. …”
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