Delivering Quality to Patients
| dc.contributor.author | Finlayson, Samuel R. G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-14T14:59:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-14T14:59:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.description.abstract | IN THIS ISSUE OF JAMA, LIU AND COLLEAGUES1 REPORT THAT for several surgical procedures, a disproportionately small number of ethnic minorities and poorly insured patients receive care in high-volume hospitals, where quality of care is assumed to be superior. The authors suggest that there is a need for explicit measures to address this disparity. Although intuitively appealing, the authors’ observations and suggestions implicitly embrace 2 assumptions that deserve closer scrutiny: (1) ethnic minority and poorly insured patients would want to go to high-volume hospitals if they knew the benefits and could overcome barriers to access, and (2) volume-based referral policies are a good way to improve surgical quality. | |
| dc.description.uri | http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/296/16/2026.long | |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/lcon-lsws | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Finlayson, Samuel R. G. (2006) Delivering Quality to Patients. JAMA, 296 (16). pp. 2026-2027. | |
| dc.identifier.other | Eprint ID 632 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/22671 | |
| dc.subject | Health Equity | |
| dc.subject | Access To Healthcare | |
| dc.subject | Disparities | |
| dc.subject | high-volume hospitals | |
| dc.subject | ethnic minorities | |
| dc.subject | poorly insured patients | |
| dc.subject | barriers to access | |
| dc.subject | operative risk | |
| dc.title | Delivering Quality to Patients | |
| dc.type | Article |