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If you have the time, take a look at the supporting information for Materials and Methods. This is interesting to me as well, but my understanding of the Englis
by busythrowaway22 6y ago
If you have the time, take a look at the supporting information for Materials and Methods. This is interesting to me as well, but my understanding of the English language is not as good.
Some key takeaways:
-They use delivery data from different categories of births, including 'complications occurring during the course of labor and delivery'. Do they account for the conditions in which the babies were born, and then attribute that to the types of doctors handling those deliveries? In other words, do they make a distinction saying emergency white doctors perform worse than emergency black doctors? Because I cannot find that information in the research.
-Since doctor race data isn't codified in Florida's database (where they use the data from), they used web pictures and determine if the doctor is white or black. They narrowed this task down to 4 people who were good at it.
-Black female doctors performed the best, they mention some control of the gender but I do not fully understand how they did it.
-They used a Latino doctor group as well to account for differences, but found that while there is a distinction, it is much smaller than Black-White.
I also don't understand if/how they control for the quality of the hospital. Is there one bad low income hospital with white doctors in a predominantly black area?