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Weekly JAMA Feature for September 15
“SURVIVAL RATES FOUND TO DIFFER BY RACE AFTERIN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST”
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package, embargoed until 4 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, September 15 is:
Radio script (TRT APPROX. 1:00)
September 15, 2009
VO: (:14) WHEN A HOSPITALIZED PATIENT HAS A CARDIAC ARREST, RESUSCITATION ATTEMPTS MUST OCCUR IMMEDIATELY. DR. PAUL CHAN OF SAINT LUKE’S
MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE, AND HIS COLLEAGUES, SAW THESE EVENTS AS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT POTENTIAL RACIAL DISPARITIES BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE PATIENTS.
“Response is immediate and required to save a patients life. Other factors such as insurance status and cultural preferences that differ by race should really play no role as to whether or not patients who have a cardiac arrest survive.”
VO: (:18) FEATURED THIS WEEK IN JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE RESEARCH EXAMINED OUTCOME DATA OF OVER 10,000 PATIENTS FOLLOWING AN IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST. THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK PATIENTS HAD A 12% LOWER SURVIVAL RATE TO HOSPITAL DISCHARGE THAN WHITE PATIENTS - BUT THAT DIFFERENCE WAS NEARLY ERASED WHEN RESEARCHERS TOOK THE HOSPITAL SITE INTO ACCOUNT.
“Some hospitals are better performers when it comes to resuscitating and providing the best possible care for patients with cardiac arrest and these differences seem to disproportionately affect patients who are black.”
VO: HALEY WELDON, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT APPROX. 1:00)
September 15, 2009
VO: (:14) WHEN A HOSPITALIZED PATIENT HAS A CARDIAC ARREST, RESUSCITATION ATTEMPTS MUST OCCUR IMMEDIATELY. DR. PAUL CHAN OF SAINT LUKE’S
MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE, AND HIS COLLEAGUES, SAW THESE EVENTS AS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT POTENTIAL RACIAL DISPARITIES BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE PATIENTS.
“Response is immediate and required to save a patients life. Other factors such as insurance status and cultural preferences that differ by race should really play no role as to whether or not patients who have a cardiac arrest survive.”
VO: (:18) FEATURED THIS WEEK IN JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE RESEARCH EXAMINED OUTCOME DATA OF OVER 10,000 PATIENTS FOLLOWING AN IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST. THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK PATIENTS HAD A 12% LOWER SURVIVAL RATE TO HOSPITAL DISCHARGE THAN WHITE PATIENTS - BUT THAT DIFFERENCE WAS NEARLY ERASED WHEN RESEARCHERS TOOK THE HOSPITAL SITE INTO ACCOUNT.
“Some hospitals are better performers when it comes to resuscitating and providing the best possible care for patients with cardiac arrest and these differences seem to disproportionately affect patients who are black.”
VO: HALEY WELDON, THE JAMA REPORT.