Did ethno-racial disparities in access to transcatheter aortic valve replacement change over time?.
Citation: JTCVS Open. 12:71-83, 2022 Dec.PMID: 36590742Institution: MedStar Health Research InstituteDepartment: MedStar General Surgery Residency | MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/MedStar Washington Hospital CenterForm of publication: Journal ArticleMedline article type(s): Journal ArticleYear: 2022ISSN:- 2666-2736
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Conclusions: This analysis shows initial low rates of TAVR utilization among non-White patients followed by accelerated use over time, relative to White patients. This narrowing gap was driven by increased TAVR utilization by non-White patients at high-volume hospitals. Copyright © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
Methods: From 2013 to 2017, we used the State Inpatient Database across 8 states (Ariz, Colo, Fla, Md, NC, NM, Nev, Wash) to identify 51,232 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent TAVR versus surgical aortic valve replacement. Hospitals were categorized as low- (<50 per year), medium- (50-100 per year), or high-volume (>100 per year) according to total valve procedures (TAVR + surgical aortic valve replacement). Multivariable logistic regression models with interactions were performed to determine the effect of race, time, and hospital volume on the utilization of TAVR.
Objective: In this study we sought to evaluate whether disparate use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) among non-White patients has decreased over time, and if unequal access to TAVR is driven by unequal access to high-volume hospitals.
Results: Non-White patients were less likely to receive TAVR than White patients (odds ratio [OR], 0.77; 95% CI, 0.71-0.83). However, utilization of TAVR increased over time (OR, 1.73; 95% CI, 1.73-1.80) for the total population, with non-White patients' TAVR use growing faster than for White patients (OR, 1.06; 95% CI, 1.00-1.12), time x race interaction, P = .034. Further, an adjusted volume-stratified time trend analysis showed that utilization of TAVR at high volume hospitals increased faster for non-White patients versus White patients by 8.6% per year (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.01-1.16) whereas use at low- and medium-volume hospitals did not contribute to any decreasing utilization gap.
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