July 18, 2007
Quality and Disparity in Care Across States
JAMA has a short article about a recent Commonwealth Fund report. (Note: pdf file)
From JAMA:
Many factors likely contribute to health disparities, some within the health care delivery system, some (such as educational status and health behaviors) outside the system (Lurie N and Dubowitz T. JAMA. 2007;297[10]:1118-1120). The report, released on June 13 by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on health care issues, features a scorecard ranking states on 32 indicators of health care access, quality, potentially avoidable use of hospitals and costs of care, equity, and the ability to live long and healthy lives.
The authors estimated that if all states could do as well as the top-performing states, there would be 90 000 fewer deaths before age 75 years annually, 22 million currently uninsured adults and children would have health insurance coverage, and Medicare could save at least $22 billion per year.
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Category: Health Disparities
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