Hospital Accreditation Status and Treatment Differences Among Black Patients With Colon Cancer

K Chan, BE Palis, JH Cotler, LM Janczewski… - JAMA network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Hospital-level factors, such as hospital type or volume, have been demonstrated
to play a role in treatment disparities for Black patients with cancer. However, data …

How national health insurance coverage policy affected the use of trastuzumab and rituximab in China: a Bicentric Retrospective Study

L Shang, Y Lin, W Fang, Y Liu, Y Bao, X Li… - Risk Management and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Cancer is a significant health concern and is China's leading cause of mortality.
Targeted therapies, such as trastuzumab and rituximab, have enhanced clinical treatment …

[PDF][PDF] NASEM Commissioned Paper: Uneven and Limited Progress Towards Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health Care and Outcomes

K Fiscella, MPHMR Sanders - 2023 - nap.nationalacademies.org
Executive Summary Background In 2003, the Institute of Medicine issued the report Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care that documented …

Race norming and biases in surgical oncology care

B Lee, E Odusanya, W Nizam, A Johnson… - Journal of Surgical … - Wiley Online Library
Disparities in surgical oncology care may be due to race/ethnicity. Race norming, defined as
the adjustment of medical assessments based on an individual's race/ethnicity, and implicit …