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Patient Safety Declining, Disparities Persist

Bridget Kuehn

JAMA. 2009;301(23):2427-2428.

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Patient safety continues to decline in the United States and important disparities persist in the care received by various minority and low-income populations, according to a pair of reports released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in May.

The annual reports (available at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr08.htm) examine data from a variety of national databases to assess key aspects of health care. This year's quality report documents that 1 in 7 Medicare patients experienced a medical adverse event in 2005 and 2006 and that overall measures of patient safety declined by nearly 1% in each of the past 6 years. Meanwhile, quality improvements in the health care received by individuals who are black, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic, or poor have stalled or receded on more than half of the measures assessed in the AHRQ's report on disparities.

Disparities between the care received by minority patients and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

PERSISTENT CHALLENGES



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