Quality Improvement Interventions to Address Health Disparities

Below is information on a free CE offering that you may be interested in sharing with your members and/or colleagues.

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A new Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) continuing-education video explores how different quality improvement interventions may affect critical health disparities across patient groups.

Despite well documented disparities in health and health care in the United States, little is known about what interventions might serve to reduce differences and effectively improve the quality of care. This video summarizes a comprehensive review evaluating the effectiveness of quality improvement interventions to reduce health disparities. Findings are based on 14 studies conducted across various health care settings, types of disparities, and clinical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and depression. Several strategies are worthy of future study and possibly wider implementation.

The new streaming video is available at no cost for continuing-education credit: http://goo.gl/pLMO7w

NOTE: Download the executive summary and the full research report