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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 14.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2011 May 31;123(23):2710–2716. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.973628

Table 2.

Distances from the home residence of black and white AMI patients admitted during 2005 to hospitals available within the study HRRs

Distance, in miles (median, [IQR]) Black (N=8,291) White (N=57,342) P-value
Closest hospital 2.2 (0-2.3) 2.9 (0-6.5) <.001
Closest hospital with revascularization 3.8 (2.0-10.9) 6.8 (2.9-17.1) <.001
Closest high quality hospital 5.6 (2.8-16.5) 9.7 (4.0-25.4) <.001
Closest low quality hospital 25.5 (9.0-54.7) 36.9 (17.4-62.0) <.001
Admitting hospital 3.4 (1.4 – 7.0) 4.7 (1.7-10.3) <.001