Rationale: Variation in hospital mortality has been described for coronavirus disease
(COVID-19), but the factors that explain these differences remain unclear. Objective: Our …

Importance The US Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a major Medicare
value-based payment program aimed at improving quality and reducing costs. Little is …

Objective To assess the influence of racial and economic residential segregation of home or
hospital neighborhood on very preterm birth morbidity and mortality in neonates born very …

COVID-19 and police brutality have simultaneously heightened public awareness of
disparities in health outcomes by race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status, and the …

Objective The aim was to identify hospital and county characteristics associated with
variation in breadth and depth of hospital partnerships with a broad range of organizations …

Importance Identifying the mechanisms of structural racism, such as racial and ethnic
segregation, is a crucial first step in addressing the persistent disparities in access to live …

Purpose To examine whether hospital closure is associated with high levels of area
socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic minority composition. Methods Pooled cross …

An aspect of a hospital's location, such as its degree of socioeconomic disadvantage, could
potentially affect quality ratings of the hospital; yet, few studies have granularly explored this …

Introduction There are multiple measures of area socioeconomic status (SES) and there is
little evidence on the comparative performance of these measures. We hypothesized adding …

Hintergrund Die deutsche Krankenhauslandschaft befindet sich finanzierungsbedingt in
einem unkoordinierten Strukturwandel. Gleichzeitig wird versucht, mithilfe von …