Abstract
BACKGROUND: This study examines whether racial disparities in hospitalization outcomes persist between African-American and White women with ovarian cancer after matching on demographic, presentation, and treatment factors.
METHODS: Using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database, 5,164 African-American ovarian cancer patients were sequentially matched with White patients on demographic (e.g., age, income), presentation (e.g., stage, comorbidities), and treatment (e.g., surgery, radiation) factors. Racial differences in-hospital length of stay, post-operative complications, and in-hospital mortality were evaluated using conditional logistic regression models.
RESULTS: White ovarian cancer patients had relatively higher odds of post-operative complications when matched on demographics (OR 1.35, 95% CI 1.05, 1.74), and presentation (OR 1.28, 95% CI 1.00, 1.65) but not when additionally matched on treatment (OR 1.03, 95% CI 0.78, 1.35). African-American patients had longer in-hospital length of stay (6.96 ± 7.21 days) compared with White patients when matched on demographics (6.37 ± 7.07 days), presentation (6.48 ± 7.16 days), and treatment (6.53 ± 7.59 days). Compared with African-American patients, White patients experienced lower odds of in-hospital mortality when matched on demographics (OR 0.78, 95% CI 0.66, 0.92), but this disparity was no longer significant when additionally matched on presentation (OR 0.88, 95% CI 0.75, 1.04) and treatment (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.81, 1.12).
CONCLUSION: Racial disparities in ovarian cancer hospitalization outcomes persisted after adjusting for demographic and presentation factors; however these differences were eliminated after additionally accounting for treatment factors. More studies are needed to determine the factors driving racial differences in ovarian cancer treatment in otherwise similar patient populations.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-018-1010-7
Repository Citation
Akinyemiju, Tomi F.; Naik, Gurudatta; Ogunsina, Kemi; Dibaba, Daniel T.; and Vin-Raviv, Neomi, "Demographic, Presentation, and Treatment Factors and Racial Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Hospitalization Outcomes" (2018). Epidemiology and Environmental Health Faculty Publications. 64.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/epidemiology_facpub/64
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Cancer Causes & Control, v. 29, no. 3, p. 333-342.
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Cancer Causes & Control. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-018-1010-7