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Table 2 Aspirin Screening and Recommendations for Pre- and Post-intervention Cohorts, by Self-identified Black or Non-Black Race

From: Leveraging quality improvement to promote health equity: standardization of prenatal aspirin recommendations

Characteristic or Outcome, n (%)

Pre-intervention (n = 201)

Post-intervention (n = 199)

Exact

p-value

Patients

   

 Black

24 (11.9)

27 (13.6)

0.655*

 Non-Black

177 (88.1)

172 (86.4)

0.655*

Screened for aspirin

N/A

197 (99.0)

 

 Black

N/A

26 (96.3)

0.254**

 Non-Black

N/A

171 (99.4)

Candidates for aspirin

94 (46.8)

95 (47.7)

0.920*

 Black

21 (87.5)

25 (92.6)

< 0.001**

 Non-Black

73 (41.2)

70 (40.7)

Correct recommendation for aspirin

26 (27.7)

75 (78.9)

< 0.001*

 Black

6 (28.6)

20 (80.0)

1.000**

 Non-Black

20 (27.4)

55 (78.6)

Incorrect recommendation for aspirin

5 (4.7)

11 (10.6)

0.124*

 Black

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

1.000**

 Non-Black

5 (4.8)

11 (10.8)

  1. *Two-sided Fisher’s exact test for differences in pre-intervention vs. post-intervention groups
  2. ** Two-sided Fisher’s exact test for differences in post-intervention Black vs. non-Black groups