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· Delays linked to longer hospital stays, increased return to hospital within 30 days after appendectomy
· Appendicitis is the most common surgical diagnosis
· First study to show racial-ethnic disparities in delayed appendicitis diagnosis
· Racially integrating hospitals would provide better clinical care, more sustainable health care system
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