Disparities in healthcare exist on a national, state, regional, and hospital level. With increased awareness of these disparities, many initiatives have been put in place to improve health equity. However, there is currently no consensus on how to measure disparities in healthcare, and disparity-sensitive metrics have not been widely integrated into quality assessment programs. A lack of disparity metrics makes it challenging to assess the impact of health equity initiatives on improving health equity over time. Now, new research from Elzerie de Jager, MBBS, PhD, in collaboration with leadership at the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, introduces a novel methodology to benchmark hospitals on in-hospital disparities in surgical care.
Dr. de Jager has recently developed a 3-credit graduate Health Equity course which we will be offering as an elective in the fall. If you are interested in this work, make sure to register for the course!
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