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Health Equity And Quantifying The Patient Experience: A Case Study, Maria R. Moreno, Brandon Sherrets, Danielle J. Roberts, Kristen Azar
Health Equity And Quantifying The Patient Experience: A Case Study, Maria R. Moreno, Brandon Sherrets, Danielle J. Roberts, Kristen Azar
Patient Experience Journal
The COVID-19 pandemic has invigorated efforts to address health inequities disproportionately burdened by racial/ethnic groups and individuals of low socioeconomic status. Measuring and monitoring patient experience is crucial to understanding why the gaps exist and identifying mechanisms necessary to close them. Electronic health records and digital health tools hold much promise in this regard and can lead to change. We present a case study describing the innovative efforts undertaken at Sutter Health, a large integrated health network in Northern California, to quantify gaps in health equity using electronic platforms and visualization modalities. More work is needed to identify and address …
Sociodemographic Characteristics And Patient And Family Experience Survey Response Biases, Lauren N. Brinkman, Myra S. Saeed, Andrew F. Beck, Michael C. Ponti-Zins, Ndidi I. Unaka, Mary C. Burkhardt, Jareen Meinzen-Derr, Samuel P. Hanke
Sociodemographic Characteristics And Patient And Family Experience Survey Response Biases, Lauren N. Brinkman, Myra S. Saeed, Andrew F. Beck, Michael C. Ponti-Zins, Ndidi I. Unaka, Mary C. Burkhardt, Jareen Meinzen-Derr, Samuel P. Hanke
Patient Experience Journal
Enhancing Patient and Family Experience (PFE) is vital to the delivery of quality healthcare services. Sociodemographic differences affect health outcomes and experiences, but research is limited on biases in PFE survey methodology. We sought to assess survey participation rates across sociodemographic characteristics. This retrospective study analyzed a health system’s ambulatory PFE survey data, collected January 1 – July 31, 2019. Outcomes of interest were rates of survey response, completion, and comments. Predictors included respondent-reported race, ethnicity, language, and measure of social deprivation attached to a respondent’s home address. Addresses were geocoded to census tracts. The tract’s degree of socioeconomic deprivation …
Breaking Barriers To Equity: A Conversation With Dr. Julia Iyasere, Jason A. Wolf Phd
Breaking Barriers To Equity: A Conversation With Dr. Julia Iyasere, Jason A. Wolf Phd
Patient Experience Journal
I was honored to have the opportunity to talk to someone I've been fortunate to meet in the past few months and who has taught me incredible things about the topic of equity in healthcare and even more so the idea of health justice, Dr. Julia Iyasere, Executive Director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Dalio Center for Health Justice. As a physician, an educator, a researcher, and I suggest an evidence-based social activist, Dr. Iyasere has led the establishment and growth of the Dalio Center in just the over 9 months since its launch. But the ideas she champions in her work …