Significant racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality exist in the United
States. Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die a pregnancy-related death as …

Objective To develop a conceptual framework for investigating the role of racial/ethnic
residential segregation on health care disparities. Data Sources and Settings Review of the …

Importance Black and Hispanic populations have higher rates of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) hospitalization and mortality than White populations but lower in-hospital case …

Background For every maternal death,> 100 women experience severe maternal morbidity,
which is a life-threatening diagnosis, or undergo a life-saving procedure during their delivery …

Background The black-white maternal mortality disparity is the largest disparity among all
conventional population perinatal health measures, and the mortality gap between black …

Importance Substantial quality improvements in neonatal care have occurred over the past
decade yet racial and ethnic disparities in morbidity and mortality remain. It is uncertain …

Background Hospitals under financial pressure may struggle to maintain quality and patient
safety and have worse patient outcomes relative to well-resourced hospitals. Poor predictive …

Importance Disparities in quality of care according to patient race and socioeconomic status
persist in the US. Differential referral patterns to specialist physicians might be associated …

A large literature in medicine documents variation across areas in the use of surgical
treatments that is unrelated to outcomes. Observers of this phenomenon have invoked “flat …

Purpose Racial disparities in BRCA1/2 testing have been documented, but causes of these
disparities are poorly understood. The study objective was to investigate whether the …