Black children have more complications during appendectomies and incur higher costs, study shows
Black children consistently have more medical complications during appendectomies than their white peers, including higher rates of “perforated” or burst appendixes. That not only leads to extended hospital stays for the children, but it’s costing the U.S. health care system millions.
Over the past two decades alone, that racial disparity has added up to an estimated $59 million in avoidable costs due to the excess rate of perforations, according to a study published Thursday in Pediatrics.
