Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Home Health Referral Among Adult Medicare Patients
Olga Yakusheva,
Kathryn A. Lee,
Abiola Keller
et al.
Abstract:Background:
Home health care (HHC) services following hospital discharge provide essential continuity of care to mitigate risks of posthospitalization adverse outcomes and readmissions, yet patients from racial and ethnic minority groups are less likely to receive HHC visits.
Objective:
To examine how the association of nurse assessments of patients’ readiness for discharge with referral to HHC services at the time of hospital discharge differs by race … Show more
“…10 Usual hospital care suffers from health inequities and efforts to address these have led to the adoption of actionable frameworks that lead to organizational and clinical practice change to create more equitable health systems. 11 To reduce health disparities, it is vital that HaH programs adopt an equitable implementation framework to meet the needs and preferences of marginalized populations.…”
Section: Improving the Equitable Implementation Of Hahmentioning
“…10 Usual hospital care suffers from health inequities and efforts to address these have led to the adoption of actionable frameworks that lead to organizational and clinical practice change to create more equitable health systems. 11 To reduce health disparities, it is vital that HaH programs adopt an equitable implementation framework to meet the needs and preferences of marginalized populations.…”
Section: Improving the Equitable Implementation Of Hahmentioning
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