• Clinics caring for Black versus White cardiac arrest patients have significant differences in quality, resources, and patient case mix.
  • Accounting for differences in clinic characteristics between Black versus White cardiac arrest patients did not reduce race disparities in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  • Relative to younger patients, older Black patients were less likely to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (including AED use) in dialysis clinics compared with older White patients.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9255868/

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