Clinicians & Providers

• Asthma Care Quality for Children with Minority-serving Providers
• New Projects and Activities in Minority Health
• New Projects and Activities in Minority Health
• Race, Sex, and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Risk: an Observational Study
• Racial Differences in PSA Screening Interval and Stage at Diagnosis
• Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit

Policymaker Resources

• Creation of New Race-Ethnicity Codes and Socioeconomic Status (SES) Indicators for Medicare Beneficiaries
• Project Intersect: Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: April 25-26

Fact Sheets

April 1 2013 20130401

Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

May 1 2003 20030501

New Projects and Activities in Minority Health

May 1 2000 20000501

New Projects and Activities in Minority Health

Full Research Reports

September 1 2012 20120901

Creation of New Race-Ethnicity Codes and Socioeconomic Status (SES) Indicators for Medicare Beneficiaries

Other Research & Data

• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• Project Intersect: Health Disparities Research at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: April 25-26

News & Numbers

November 3 2011 20111103

Knee Replacements Up Dramatically Among Adults 45 to 64 Years Old

Other News & Events

• AHRQ releases tool to help Spanish-speaking consumers reduce medication errors
• Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
• Among patients with diabetes, racial/ethnic discrimination by health care providers is uncommon
• Asthma project helps resident physicians improve care for minority patients
• Blacks and patients at hospitals with a high percentage of black patients more likely to suffer adverse events
• Blacks have higher rates of pituitary adenoma
• Blacks have worse colorectal cancer survival rates than whites
• Blacks who receive heart transplants have poorer survival than other racial groups
• Expert workshop discusses disparities in health care quality and role of health IT in underresourced settings
• Health information technology-supported quality improvement initiative reduces some ambulatory care disparities
• Hospital readmissions for COPD highest among black patients
• Living in Hispanic or black communities increases risk for obesity
• Many black parents believe soft bedding will keep their infants safe from sudden infant death syndrome
• Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients less likely to receive drug-eluting stents than the privately insured
• Medicare-insured patients with head or neck cancer differ little in mortality risk because of race or ethnicity
• Minority patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer are less likely to receive hospice services than whites
• Minority status has no effect on patient outcomes in the intensive care unit
• New Projects and Activities in Minority Health
• New Spanish-language guides inform decisions about heart disease and other illnesses
• Occupational back injuries lead to increased financial and domestic hardship for black and young workers
• Perception of racial discrimination among blacks linked to socioeconomic position
• Studies find emotional and health problems and elevated deaths among recently released prisoners
• Study identifies attributes of surgeons more willing to provide charity care
• Type of insurance affects use and intensity of postacute care for stroke survivors
• Watching patient stories on DVDs improves blood pressure control among blacks