Racial and ethnic minorities bear a disproportionate burden of the diabetes epidemic; they
have higher prevalence rates, worse diabetes control, and higher rates of complications …

Racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health care are well documented. Promising
approaches to disparity reduction are increasingly described in literature published since …

Background Two assumptions underpin the implementation of pay for performance in
Medicare: that with the use of claims data, patients can be assigned to a physician or to a …

The spatial segregation of the US population by socioeconomic position and especially
race/ethnicity suggests that the social contexts or “neighborhoods” in which people live may …

Background Racial/ethnic disparities in health care are well documented, but less is known
about whether disparities occur within or between hospitals for specific inpatient processes …

We describe the racial segregation in US nursing homes and its relationship to racial
disparities in the quality of care. Nursing homes remain relatively segregated, roughly …

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 …

Background The reasons for racial differences in health care are not well known, but the
characteristics of hospitals where people receive care may be an important factor in the …

ContextPrevious studies of sex differences in the use of implantable cardioverter-
defibrillators (ICDs) predate recent expansions in Medicare coverage and did not provide …

Patients and physicians often disagree in their assessment of pain intensity. This study
explores the impact of patient factors on underestimation of pain intensity in chronic …