{"id":6557,"date":"2021-03-12T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2021-03-12T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T01:20:26","slug":"differences-in-covid-19-related-testing-and-healthcare-utilization-by-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-veterans-health-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/12\/differences-in-covid-19-related-testing-and-healthcare-utilization-by-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-veterans-health-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences in COVID-19-Related Testing and Healthcare Utilization by Race and Ethnicity in the Veterans Health Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>SARS-CoV-2 testing rates (4%) and positivity rates (12%) among Black veterans and Hispanic veterans (5% and 12%, respectively) were higher compared to white veterans (3% and 6%) according to a retrospective cohort study of all US veterans who were active users of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) services. 252,702 veterans were tested (3%) for SARS-CoV-2 from February to July 2020, with an overall positivity rate of 8%. Among veterans with a positive test result, 24% of had an incident hospitalization due to COVID-19, with hospitalization rates highest in Black veterans (29%). No significant differences by race and ethnicity were observed in odds of ICU admission or in-hospital death after controlling for demographics and comorbidities. Results for other reported race\/ethnicity groups were described, but statistical comparison focused on Black, Hispanic and white veterans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Razjouyan et al.\u00a0(Mar 2021). Differences in COVID-19-Related Testing and Healthcare Utilization by Race and Ethnicity in the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40615-021-00982-0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40615-021-00982-0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARS-CoV-2 testing rates (4%) and positivity rates (12%) among Black veterans and Hispanic veterans (5% and 12%, respectively) were higher compared to white veterans (3% and 6%) according to a retrospective cohort study of all US veterans who were active users of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) services. 252,702 veterans were tested (3%) for SARS-CoV-2&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/12\/differences-in-covid-19-related-testing-and-healthcare-utilization-by-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-veterans-health-administration\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}