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Effects of Part D Star Ratings on racial and ethnic disparities in health care costs
Background: Racial/ethnic minorities are less likely than non-Hispanic White (White) patients to be included in the Medicare Part D Star Ratings measure assessment due to the restrictive inclusion criteria for the measures. Objective: This paper examined
Chi Chun Steve Tsang +3 more
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Women’s health care has always been a hotbed for public attention. The upcoming presidential election and new state-level laws targeting reproductive rights have only brought these issues into greater prominence. While reproductive rights are an important topic on their own, we also need to talk about a subset of the greater issue that is often swept ...
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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 +6 more
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Healthcare as a Determinant of Socioeconomic Security – Regional Disparities in Poland [PDF]
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
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The Great American Recession and forgone healthcare: Do widened disparities between African-Americans and Whites remain? [PDF]
During the Great Recession in America, African-Americans opted to forgo healthcare more than other racial/ethnic groups. It is not understood whether disparities in forgone care returned to pre-recession levels.
Jasmine L Travers +3 more
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Clinical Uncertainty and Healthcare Disparities
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 +3 more
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Analysis of Compatibility between the Need and Utilization of Health Services in West of Iran: Panel of Two Cross-Sectional Studies [PDF]
Background: Individuals with the same needs are eligible to use required healthcare services, which is rarely taken into account in health systems. The present research evaluated this issue by investigating the determinants of the need for outpatient ...
Ali Soroush +5 more
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Starting the Conversation About Healthcare Disparities
Description The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) put forth institutional requirements to implement healthcare disparity education in resident and fellow curricula in an effort to decrease these inequities. Healthcare disparities stem from many different factors.
Melissa D, Mendez +2 more
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Pediatric appendicitis rupture rate: a national indicator of disparities in healthcare access
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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ABSTRACT Blinatumomab has been shown to be highly effective for patients with pediatric B‐ALL and has recently become standard of care therapy. Due to its past use in the clinical trial setting, there is limited information available about real‐world administration.
Katelyn Oranges +12 more
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