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Healthcare as a Determinant of Socioeconomic Security – Regional Disparities in Poland [PDF]

Košická bezpečnostná revue, 2019
Healthcare constitutes essential determinant of socioeconomic security, both for individuals and in regard to national economies. It includes numerous elements, such as healthcare infrastructure, medical personnel and access to medical procedures and ...
Iwona PAWLAS, Ksenia PAWLAS
doaj  

Clinical Uncertainty and Healthcare Disparities

American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2003
The Institute of Medicine Report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities, affirms in its first finding: “Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare exist and, because they are associated with worse outcomes in many cases, are unacceptable.” The mechanisms that generate racial and ethnic disparities in medical care operate at the
Bloche, Maxwell Gregg, Balsa, Ana I., McGuire, Thomas G., Seiler, Naomi   +3 more
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Transparency and accountability in healthcare: bridging antiracism and quality improvement to advance health equity

Critical Public Health
The terms transparency and accountability appear in various disciplines and frameworks as organizational ideals or guiding principles for governance, but there is limited cross-sector analysis of what these terms mean and how they may be employed to ...
Ida Griesemer, Kristin Z. Black, Leslie R. M. Hausmann, Deborah Gurewich, Aditi Garikipati, Rabab Husain, Stephanie Baker   +6 more
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Pediatric appendicitis rupture rate: a national indicator of disparities in healthcare access

Population Health Metrics, 2005
Background The U.S. National Healthcare Disparities Report is a recent effort to measure and monitor racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare. The Report is a work in progress and includes few indicators specific to children.
Guagliardo Mark F, Jablonski Kathleen A
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Trends in racial/ethnic disparities in medical and oral health, access to care, and use of services in US children: has anything changed over the years?

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2013
Introduction The 2010 Census revealed the population of Latino and Asian children grew by 5.5 million, while the population of white children declined by 4.3 million from 2000-2010, and minority children will outnumber white children by 2020.
Flores Glenn, Lin Hua
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Disparities in Maternal Healthcare Services

Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2020
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Factors for Rituximab Refractoriness in AQP4‐IgG+ NMOSD: A Cohort Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a severe autoimmune condition of the central nervous system (CNS), often associated with aquaporin‐4 antibodies (AQP4‐IgG). Rituximab, a CD20+ B‐cell depleting monoclonal antibody, is widely used as first‐line therapy.
Mariano Marrodan, María A. Piedrabuena, María A. Zarate, Sofía Rodríguez Murúa, Ezequiel I. Surace, Mauricio F. Farez, Marcela P. Fiol, María C. Ysrraelit, Jorge Correale   +8 more
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Association of the ICH Score With Withdrawal of Life‐Sustaining Treatment Over a 10‐Year Period

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) score was developed to enhance provider communication and facilitate early severity assessment. We examined the association of the ICH score with mortality and withdrawal of life‐sustaining treatment (WLST) in a large, multicenter stroke registry, and evaluated temporal trends in these associations.
Nina Massad, Lili Zhou, Brian Manolovitz, Negar Asdaghi, Hannah Gardener, Hao Ying, Carolina M. Gutierrez, Angus Jameson, David Rose, Mohan Kottapally, Amedeo Merenda, Kristine O'Phelan, Sebastian Koch, Jose G. Romano, Tatjana Rundek, Ayham Alkhachroum   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tamiah N. McCoy - African American Women’s Birth Stories as Told To African American Women Interviewers [PDF]

, 2013
Background: A woman’s birth story allows each woman to tell her own perspectives about her experience of bringing a child into the world. As healthcare providers, it is always important to value listening to and learning from our clients.
McCoy, Tamiah N.
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Where, how, and how much? A multicenter cohort study of the relationship between lupus decision aid modality, place of administration, interruption and viewing completeness and patient‐reported outcomes

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We assessed whether shared decision‐making (SDM), and patient acceptability, feasibility, and overall satisfaction with a computerized patient decision aid (PtDA) for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), differs by PtDA setting, modality, and the viewing experience.
Jasvinder A. Singh, Mark Beasley, Larry R. Hearld, for the Implementing DEcision‐Aid for Lupus in clinics (IDEAL) Consortium   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source