[HTML][HTML] Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E 2012): explanation and elaboration

V Welch, M Petticrew, J Petkovic, D Moher… - Journal of clinical …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Background The promotion of health equity, the absence of avoidable and unfair differences
in health outcomes, is a global imperative. Systematic reviews are an important source of …

Effects of race and ethnicity on diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel diseases

EL Barnes, EV Loftus Jr, MD Kappelman - Gastroenterology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Although Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) have been considered as
disorders that affect individuals of European ancestry, the epidemiology of the inflammatory …

Systematic review: the evidence that publishing patient care performance data improves quality of care

CH Fung, YW Lim, S Mattke, C Damberg… - Annals of internal …, 2008‏ - acpjournals.org
Background: Previous reviews have shown inconsistent effects of publicly reported
performance data on quality of care, but many new studies have become available in the 7 …

Interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care

MH Chin, AE Walters, SC Cook… - … Care Research and …, 2007‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In 2005, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created Finding Answers: Disparities
Research for Change, a program to identify, evaluate, and disseminate interventions to …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of nonpayment for preventable infections in US hospitals

GM Lee, K Kleinman, SB Soumerai, A Tse… - … England Journal of …, 2012‏ - Mass Medical Soc
Background In October 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired conditions that were deemed …

Epigenetics of stress, addiction, and resilience: therapeutic implications

JL Cadet - Molecular neurobiology, 2016‏ - Springer
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are highly prevalent. SUDs involve vicious cycles of binges
followed by occasional periods of abstinence with recurrent relapses despite treatment and …

Public release of performance data in changing the behaviour of healthcare consumers, professionals or organisations

NABM Ketelaar, MJ Faber, S Flottorp… - Cochrane database …, 2011‏ - cochranelibrary.com
Background It is becoming increasingly common to release information about the
performance of hospitals, health professionals or providers, and healthcare organisations …

Will Pay-For-Performance And Quality Reporting Affect Health Care Disparities? These rapidly proliferating programs do not appear to be devoting much attention to …

LP Casalino, A Elster, A Eisenberg, E Lewis… - Health …, 2007‏ - healthaffairs.org
Pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs can increase the quality of
health care for the services being measured. However, unless carefully designed, these …

Understanding racial disparities in cancer treatment and outcomes

AM Morris, KF Rhoads, SC Stain… - Journal of the American …, 2010‏ - journals.lww.com
A recent report from the Institute of Medicine documents widespread racial disparities in
medical treatment and health outcomes. 1 Such disparities are particularly apparent among …

Obesity impacts access to kidney transplantation

DL Segev, CE Simpkins, RE Thompson… - Journal of the …, 2008‏ - journals.lww.com
Current billing practices and mandates to report surgical outcomes are disincentives to
surgical treatment of obese patients, who are at increased risk for longer hospital stays and …