Inequality in quality: addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in health care

K Fiscella, P Franks, MR Gold, CM Clancy - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health care quality have been extensively
documented. Recently, the elimination of disparities in health care has become the focus of …

An evaluation of the Kessner adequacy of prenatal care index and a proposed adequacy of prenatal care utilization index.

M Kotelchuck - American journal of public health, 1994 - ajph.aphapublications.org
OBJECTIVES. The assessment of the adequacy of prenatal care utilization is heavily shaped
by the way in which utilization is measured. Although it is widely used, the current major …

Disparities in health care by race, ethnicity, and language among the insured: findings from a national sample

K Fiscella, P Franks, MP Doescher, BG Saver - Medical care, 2002 - journals.lww.com
Background: Racial and ethnic disparities in health care have been well documented, but
poorly explained. Objective: To examine the effect of access barriers, including English …

[HTML][HTML] Pregnancy-related mortality surveillance—United States, 1991–1999

J Chang, LD Elam-Evans, CJ Berg, J Herndon… - MMWR Surveill …, 2003 - cdc.gov
Abstract Problem/Condition: The risk of death from complications of pregnancy has
decreased approximately 99% during the twentieth century, from approximately 850 …

Pregnancy-related mortality from preeclampsia and eclampsia

AP MacKay, CJ Berg, HK Atrash - Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Methods We used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy
Mortality Surveillance System to examine pregnancy-related deaths from preeclampsia and …

Racial and ethnic disparities in perceptions of physician style and trust

MP Doescher, BG Saver, P Franks, K Fiscella - 2000 - repository.escholarship.umassmed …
CONTEXT: While pervasive racial and ethnic inequalities in access to care and health status
have been documented, potential underlying causes, such as patients' perceptions of their …

Anatomy of good prenatal care: perspectives of low income African-American women on barriers and facilitators to prenatal care

MC Mazul, TC Salm Ward, EM Ngui - Journal of racial and ethnic health …, 2017 - Springer
Background Although early, consistent prenatal care (PNC) can be helpful in improving poor
birth outcomes, rates of PNC use tend to be lower among African-American women …

Diversity in the American Society of Anesthesiologists leadership

P Toledo, L Duce, J Adams, VH Ross… - Anesthesia & …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Women and minorities are underrepresented in US academic medicine.
The Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce emphasized the …

[HTML][HTML] Pregnancy-related mortality surveillance—United States, 1987–1990

LM Koonin, AP MacKay, CJ Berg, HK Atrash… - MMWR CDC Surveill …, 1997 - cdc.gov
Abstract Problem/Condition: The Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention Objectives specifies goals of no more than 3.3 maternal deaths per …

Barriers to timely prenatal care among women with insurance: the importance of prepregnancy factors

P Braveman, K Marchi, S Egerter, M Pearl… - Obstetrics & …, 2000 - Elsevier
Objective: This study, designed to avoid methodologic limitations of previous research,
aimed to identify the important noninsurance barriers to timely prenatal care. Methods: We …