OBJECTIVE: To identify any differences in hospitalization rates of @entity6 @entity1 by age, sex, or race/ethnicity. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study of Georgia hospital discharge data between 1998 and 2001. @entity1 / @entity1 : @entity1 with a principal discharge diagnosis of @entity6 . MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Adjusted hospitalization data (discharge rates, length of stay, direct charges) reported as standardized rates per 10,000 @entity1 -years, standardized rate differences, and standardized rate ratios, compared by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. RESULTS: @entity6 was the principal diagnosis in 50,301 discharges (average age, 51 years; length of stay, 5.1 days; median total charge,  5893). @entity1 > or = 60 years old had higher discharge rates, longer stays, and higher charges than @entity1 18-29 years old. @entity1 had fewer hospitalizations, shorter stays, and lower charges than @entity1 . Non-Hispanic Blacks had more than three times as many hospitalizations, markedly longer stays, and higher charges than non-Hispanic Whites. Hispanics with @entity6 had lower hospitalization rates, shorter stays, and lower charges than Whites. CONCLUSIONS: Differences by age, sex, and race/ethnicity in hospital discharge rates, lengths of stay, and charges exist for @entity6 inpatients. Further study should examine potential causes (severity of disease, comorbidity, and differential access to preventive care) of these disparities.

Disparities in XXXX -related hospitalizations: relationship of age, sex, and race/ethnicity with hospital discharges, lengths of stay, and direct inpatient charges.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Persons', 'Patients', 'patients', 'Women', 'PATIENTS', 'person', 'PARTICIPANTS', 'persons', 'men'] @entity6 :: ('MESH:D003920', 'Disease') :: ['Diabetes', 'diabetes']
@entity6 :: (MESH:D003920,Disease) :: ['diabetes']
