Articles Tagged With: minorities
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APIC: SCOTUS Race Ruling: ‘Willfully Ignores’ Challenges Minorities Still Face
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling that race cannot be a factor in college, medical, and nursing school admissions was, if nothing else, tone-deaf. The ruling came in the simmering aftermath of a three-year pandemic that exposed widespread inequity in healthcare, and gave rise to the perception of “institutionalized racism” in medicine.
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Barriers to Urogynecologic Care
There is a paucity of literature on barriers to urogynecologic care in racial/ethnic minorities. Continued evaluation is needed to better understand the unique barriers to urogynecologic care in these populations.
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Endemic Monkeypox? Overall Decline, but Persistence Likely
Although the most likely scenario is that monkeypox cases will fall significantly in the next few months, transmission in the United States is “unlikely to be eliminated in the near future,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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New Guidance to Promote Diverse Populations in Cardiovascular Trials
Individuals who participate in randomized clinical trials should be representative of the patients who will be treated with the drugs under investigation. Unfortunately, studies have consistently shown women and those from racial and ethnic minority groups are consistently underenrolled in cardiovascular clinical trials relative to their disease burden in the population.
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Link Found Between Stroke Patient Readmission Disparities and Minority Status
Black stroke patients are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital than white stroke patients, but this gap closes in hospitals with better nurse staffing levels, investigators found. These patients could experience better outcomes if hospitals allocate nursing resources in a way that appropriately addresses their additional, extenuating concerns and issues. -
TJC: Quality Improvement Should Include Data Analysis on Equitable Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the substantial disparities in healthcare that have existed in the United States for many years. The Joint Commission recently issued tips for identifying healthcare disparities and addressing them.
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Prominent Pastor, Scientists, Researchers Seek to Ease Vaccine Fears in Minority Populations
Minority populations are more likely to participate in clinical research activities when they are encouraged by trusted authority figures, such as family physicians or pastors. One such pastor and author, Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House in Dallas, decided to use his popular YouTube channel to broadcast information about the COVID-19 vaccine to dispel myths and to encourage his followers to take the shots.
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Mindfulness in Disadvantaged Populations
Participation in mindfulness-based group therapy shows promise for reducing stress and improving functioning in this pilot study involving 27 socioeconomically disadvantaged African-American women.
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Community Health Centers to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
These facilities serve millions who live at or below the federal poverty line.
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Sepsis Outcomes Improve, But Not at Minority-Serving Hospitals
ICU deaths declined 2% steadily annually at non-minority hospitals, according to a recent report. This was not true of minority-serving hospitals. Those hospitals also reported longer lengths of stay and more critical illness than non-minority hospitals.