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Blacks fare well at VA hospitals. (Service).(San Francisco Veterans Medical Center study results published in Journal of the American Medical Association)(Brief Article)
Blacks survive at higher rates than whites at VA medical centers, according to research results released in January. The study, conducted by Ashish Jha of the San Francisco VA Medical Center and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), compiled death rates for six ailments: pneumonia, diabetes, heart failure, angina, chronic lung disease and chronic kidney failure.
It compared survival rates of 7,575 black and 28,934 white patients at 147 VA hospitals between 1995 and …
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