Procedures with Higher Rates for Blacks than Whites Medicare Beneficiaries Age 65 or Older, 1992

• Source: McBean and Gornick, 1994

• 1 = Usually a consequence of diabetes

• 2 = Removal of tissue, usually related to decubitus ulcers

• 3 = Implanting shunts for chronic renal dialysis

• 4 = Removal of both testes, generally performed because of cancer

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