AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE BETTER OUTCOMES FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN HOSPITALS WITH MORE RACIALLY DIVERSE PATIENTS: A NATIONWIDE ANALYSIS

Limited data is available regarding the relationship between African-American (AA) patients’ outcomes and the hospital's racial diversity. The Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) is a validated database of discharges from a representative sampling of U.S. hospitals. We identified patients with ICD-