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Socioeconomic factors affecting outcomes in total knee and hip arthroplasty: a systematic review on healthcare disparities

Arthroplasty, 2022
Recent studies showed that healthcare disparities exist in use of and outcomes after total joint arthroplasty (TJA). This systematic review was designed to evaluate the currently available evidence regarding the effect socioeconomic factors, like income,
Paul M. Alvarez, John F. McKeon, Andrew I. Spitzer, C. Krueger, Matthew Pigott, Mengnai Li, Sravya P. Vajapey   +6 more
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Healthcare Disparities and Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Exploring the Linkages

Cureus, 2023
Introduction Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) refers to blood loss from a gastrointestinal (GI) source proximal or above the ligament of Treitz. Health equity means giving everyone an equal chance to achieve optimal health by addressing injustices,
Rajmohan Rammohan, M. Joy, Tulika Saggar, S. G. Magam, A. Sinha, D. Natt, Sandra Gómez, Saher Sheikh, P. Anand, P. Mustacchia   +9 more
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Educating about Healthcare Disparities

, 2022
Biomedical engineering (BME) students must recognize their need to identify and prevent disparities in healthcare in their future careers, as their profession directly impacts the field of healthcare.
Bushe, Kellie, Serebrennikova, Liudmila, Soucy, Hope   +2 more
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Telehealth for Communities: Toward Eliminating Rural Health Disparities

Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2012
The National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) (2007) documents issues in both quality of healthcare and access to healthcare providing information to policymakers, clinicians, administrators, and community leaders for the improvement of health.
Barbara Ann Graves
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Global Health Disparities: A Pressing Issue and a Student-based Initiative to Help

University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2021
: Developing countries, such as India, suffer profound healthcare disparities compared to developed countries. This commentary explores these healthcare disparities, the barriers to improving healthcare in developing countries, and potential solutions to
David Ripsman
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Community-Based Participatory Research: Toward Eliminating Rural Health Disparities

Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2012
The National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) (2008) tracks and documents access to healthcare as well as quality of healthcare. This report provides information to policymakers, clinicians, administrators, and community leaders for the improvement ...
Barbara Ann Graves
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Healthcare Disparities in Atopic Dermatitis in Latin America: A Narrative Review

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, pruritic skin disease caused by a mixture of genetic, immunological, and environmental factors, characterized by periods of inflammation and remission.
Jorge Sánchez, I. Ale, M. V. Ángles, G. G. Fogelbach, A. Jansen, R. Takaoka, A. Borzutzky   +6 more
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Insights into measuring health disparities using electronic health records from a statewide network of health systems: A case study

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2023
Within Wisconsin, our residents experience some of the worst health disparities in the nation. Public reporting on disparities in the quality of care is important to achieving accountability for reducing disparities over time and has been associated with
Maureen A. Smith, Matthew Gigot, Abbey Harburn, Lauren Bednarz, Katherine Curtis, Jomol Mathew, Dorothy Farrar-Edwards   +6 more
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Demographics associated with US healthcare disparities are exacerbated by the telemedicine surge during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2021
Introduction As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hit the US, there was widespread and urgent implementation of telemedicine programs nationwide without much focus on the impact on patient populations with known existing healthcare disparities.
Kristin N Gmunder, Jose W Ruiz, D. Franceschi, Maritza M. Suarez   +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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