Racial Disparities news from FierceHealthcare
NewsACOs could widen racial care delivery gap
While the creation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) could lead to improved quality of care and cost savings, they also could create networks that exclude minorities and further widen Read more...
Cardiac program helps alleviate racial disparities in care, study shows
Hospitals have improved access to appropriate care and reduced mortality for Hispanic and African-American cardiac failure patients, according to a study published this week in the American Heart Read more...
Older blacks face higher chance of readmission than other races
Race and location of care feed into racial disparities in readmission rates, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HealthDay News reports. After Read more...
Qualms about health system lead black men to delay checkups
Black males delay routine checkups, because they are wary of the healthcare system, according to a study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. This distrust is especially apparent among older Read more...
ER triage decisions delay care for blacks, Hispanics
Black Americans and Hispanics who show up at emergency rooms with chest pain are less likely than whites to get the care they need, despite displaying the same symptoms, according to a study Read more...
Blacks, women experience pain medication disparities, study finds
Blacks are prescribed fewer pain medications and women receive weaker dosages of chronic pain meds, concludes a study published in the August issue of Journal of Pain. Changes to such disparities Read more...
Better communication needed to address racial disparities in lung-cancer care
To add to the pile of research citing racial disparities in healthcare, a new study examining surgery for stage I or II non-small cell lung cancer reveals that only 55 percent of black patients Read more...
Doctors in Southeastern U.S. lack multicultural awareness, stroke rates rise among blacks
A lack of multicultural awareness by doctors in the Southeastern area of the United States known as the Stroke Belt--due to the high frequency of strokes that occur in that region--coupled with a Read more...
Insured black women suffer same delays in breast cancer care as uninsured
Regardless of insurance status, black women have to wait twice as long as insured white women for diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, a study by the GW Cancer Institute reveals. To researchers' Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Study examines causes of racial disparities in healthcare
If socioeconomic status isn't a primary driver of racial disparities in healthcare, what is? In trying to figure out why white patients receive better hospital care than those of other ethnicities, Read more...
| Press ReleasesKaiser Permanente Southern California Earns National Multicultural Health Care DistinctionReceives High Marks from National Committee for Quality Assurance PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has recognized Kaiser Permanente Southern Read more >> |
