Prehospital Intervention Among Black Patients With Traumatic Injury in Los Angeles County

Lindsey Loss; Martin Schreiber; Kazuhide Matsushima; Luis Tinoco-Garcia; Li Ding; Kenji Inaba; Reynold Henry

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.36136

Prehospital Intervention Among Black Patients With Traumatic Injury in Los Angeles County

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Sep 3;7(9):e2436136. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.36136.

Authors

Lindsey Loss¹, Martin Schreiber¹, Kazuhide Matsushima², Luis Tinoco-Garcia¹, Li Ding³, Kenji Inaba², Reynold Henry^{1

2

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.
² Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
³ Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
⁴ Division of Trauma, Emergency General Surgery and Critical Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study examined the differences in prehospital treatment received by patients with traumatic injury belonging to different racial and ethnic groups between 2013 and 2020 in Los Angeles County.

MeSH terms

Adult
Black or African American* / statistics & numerical data
Emergency Medical Services*
Female
Humans
Los Angeles
Male
Middle Aged
Wounds and Injuries* / ethnology
Wounds and Injuries* / therapy