... more likely to rate themselves as highly prepared to care for minority patients than those in the lowest diversity quintile (61.1 percent vs. 53.9 percent, respectively). This ...
... .8 percent) and 780 of 1,701 patients (45.9 percent) who participated.
"Physicians ... disparities between clinics that serve large numbers of minority patients and clinics that do not," the authors write ...
... compared to 290 minutes for non-African American patients. Fifty percent of black ICU ... findings may point to an added overall risk for minority patients.
Though admission from the emergency department ...
... last two years.
Black patients and white patients received tests of low-density ... performance reports and programs to enhance care for minority patients, should be addressed to all physicians."
(Arch ...
... even among comparably insured patients in a variety of health-care markets," said Dr. Hector ... practices with high concentrations of racial and ethnic minority patients. Primary care practices that serve ...
... less likely to get these services in the first place, we may be driving them away."
Minority communities have been historically underserved by cutting edge medical efforts, and leaders in cancer and ...
... and Hispanic (n=1,051). Researchers noted patients' age, sex, insurance status, injury and measures of injury severity.
Minority patients were more likely to be younger, less likely to be ...
... rewarded for recruiting patients into clinical trials, but they are not rewarded more for recruiting harder to reach minority patients.
"In a private practice where you have to watch the bottom line ...
... records of 41,000 terminal cancer patients over age 65. All received their health insurance ... General Medicine Fellowship Program at BIDMC. "Minority patients may be bearing the burdens of high-intensity ...
... and use of surgical, gastroenterology and radiation oncology services. Without suitable access, many minority patients may present with advanced colorectal cancer and be less likely to receive ...
... consequence. Eighteen percent resulted in harm.
"One of the most striking and disturbing findings was that minority patients were nearly three times more likely to experience adverse consequences," ...
... to Caucasian patients (odds ratio 2.15, 95 percent confidence, interval 1.28 to 3. ... may also explain racial disparities in outcomes, insofar as minority patients might receive care at hospitals with ...
... smaller, non-academic institutions that treated a higher percentage of older, sicker and minority patients than those in the top group.
While there was general agreement on performance between the ...
... to pay attention to all the barriers to improving blood pressure control, particularly for minority patients" Fiscella said.
Although not clearly known, the likely causes of the racial disparity ...
... interested in reducing health disparities among minority patients," said Sara Erickson, M.D., ... Americans. Overall, in-hospital mortality among patients with ALI did not vary meaningfully by race, ...
