February 1 2013 20130201 Criminal justice system may create and aggravate health disparities among minorities
February 1 2013 20130201 Patients who find it easy to access primary care are more likely to receive selected preventive services
February 1 2013 20130201 Rural patients with a serious form of gallstone disease are less likely than urban patients to receive treatment
November 1 2012 20121101 Health information technology-supported quality improvement initiative reduces some ambulatory care disparities
November 1 2012 20121101 More hospitals with angioplasty capability have not improved access to the procedure
September 1 2012 20120901 Despite more widespread prescribing of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection, disparities remain
July 1 2012 20120701 Black male prisoners in North Carolina have considerably lower mortality rates than black residents of that State
July 1 2012 20120701 Hard-of-hearing individuals more likely to report difficulties in accessing care
July 1 2012 20120701 Having a usual source of care promotes preventive health counseling for children
June 1 2012 20120601 Disparities Report highlights health care challenges for minorities, underscores importance of Affordable Care Act
June 1 2012 20120601 Dual Veterans Administration/Medicare users are not hospitalized more for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
June 1 2012 20120601 Vulnerable populations with heart failure less likely to receive early physician followup after discharge
May 1 2012 20120501 Children whose parents lack a usual source of care are more likely to have unmet medical needs
May 1 2012 20120501 Children with special health care needs with disabilities have greater unmet health care needs than those without disabilities
April 1 2012 20120401 Majority of conditions treated in emergency departments are treatable in primary care clinics
February 1 2012 20120201 Adults with individual and employment-related health insurance report similar, often good, access to care
September 1 2011 20110901 Leaving the emergency department without being seen more likely at hospitals that serve more low-income patients
August 1 2011 20110801 Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act funding will help health providers improve care
June 1 2011 20110601 Immigrants to the United States and Canada have worse access to care than native-born counterparts
May 1 2011 20110501 Practice setting, ownership, and specialty all affect volume of charity care provided by physicians
April 1 2011 20110401 Health care quality still improving slowly, but disparities and gaps in access to care persist
April 1 2011 20110401 Patients' income and where they live influence hospitalization for chronic lung disease
March 1 2011 20110301 One-fifth of the U.S. population has no doctor or other usual source of medical care
February 1 2011 20110201 Emergency departments have increasingly become the health care safety net for adults insured by Medicaid
February 1 2011 20110201 Poorer patients less likely to receive specific treatment for head and neck cancer
December 1 2010 20101201 Fragmentation of care for complex diabetes patients may be associated with greater use of the emergency department
December 1 2010 20101201 Nationwide survey shows free clinics provide care to nearly 2 million patients
November 1 2010 20101101 Black and Hispanic Medicare patients with hip fracture wait longer for surgery than white patients
October 1 2010 20101001 Patients with financial worries or no insurance delay going to the hospital for a heart attack
October 1 2010 20101001 Project helps those with spinal cord injury identify community and environmental barriers
October 1 2010 20101001 Rural elderly with dementia are hospitalized more often for conditions that primary care visits might have caught
September 1 2010 20100901 Certain patients with lupus are more likely to end up in the emergency department three or more times a year
September 1 2010 20100901 Physicians report care barriers for young adults with childhood-onset chronic diseases
September 1 2010 20100901 Relative inefficiency of rural critical access hospitals must be balanced against their contributions to care access and quality
September 1 2010 20100901 Requiring proof of citizenship cuts participation in Oregon's Medicaid family planning program
July 1 2010 20100701 Community health center collaboratives improve care quality but have little impact on disparities
June 1 2010 20100601 Black children are more likely to be hospitalized for a ruptured appendix than white children
June 1 2010 20100601 Disadvantages in housing, food, and health care all predict health declines in older Americans
June 1 2010 20100601 Medicaid MCOs don't boost care access for the disabled or lower Medicaid expenditures
April 1 2010 20100401 Many minority patients do not receive or complete colorectal cancer screening tests in urban, primary care settings
April 1 2010 20100401 Older black women with breast cancer do not receive beneficial chemotherapy as often as white women
April 1 2010 20100401 Rural and urban residents have similar perceptions of health care quality, despite differences in care delivery
March 1 2010 20100301 Creating networks to provide social support for the homeless may improve health outcomes
March 1 2010 20100301 Increasing the number of coronary angiography facilities led to a reduction in racial disparities in New Jersey
March 1 2010 20100301 Neighborhood demographics play a role in access to health care for immigrant and U.S.-born Mexican Americans
February 1 2010 20100201 Many patients with coronary artery disease who could benefit from cardiac rehabilitation are not referred for this treatment
January 1 2010 20100101 Individuals who seek care for coughs and colds in emergency departments have social support
August 23 2012 20120823 American Academy of Physician Assistants Recommends AHRQ's Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
September 1 2012 20120901 Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006
February 28 2011 20110228 Health Care Quality Still Improving Slowly, but Disparities and Gaps in Access to Care Persist
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