Food Prescription Programs: Future Potential and Current Obstacles
Atrial Fibrillation Disparities Were Topic of 2021 Samuel Martin Lecture
Racial Bias in Mortality Prediction Scores
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to face many uncomfortable realities. As critical care physicians, my colleagues and I work in intensive care units (ICUs) that have grown to accommodate the large numbers of patients who have become seriously ill from COVID-19 during the past year. However, the specter of scarcity has been looming. We know that a day may come when there are not enough ICU beds or ventilators for all the patients who need them.
Expanding Coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces
Integrating Social Needs Into Health Care Practice: Evidence and Barriers
Inclusive Autism Screening
[Cross-posted with Penn Center for Mental Health]
How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Affects Health Care Utilization: Chart of the Day
Alison Buttenheim's Congressional Testimony on COVID Vaccine Hesitancy
Exploring Inequities in Telemedicine
[Cross-posted from the Tradeoffs Research Corner]
The Ties Between Structural Racism, Voting Rights, and Health Equity
Penn Medicine Implements Anti-Racism Program Across Health System
How Medical Schools Perpetuate Physician Bias
[Editor’s note: In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, a team of researchers highlighted misrepresentations of race in U.S. medical school courses, and recommended ways to address the systemic racism that produces and reproduces these inaccuracies.
Nurse Staffing and Outcomes of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
In-hospital cardiac arrests (IHCAs) are catastrophic and often terminal events. Despite improvements in resuscitation efforts, fewer than 25% of patients who experience an IHCA survive to discharge. Survival varies significantly across hospitals and by race. Racial disparities in IHCA survival have been linked, in part, to the quality of care during hospitalization.
Maternal Resilience and Low Birthweight
The United States has one of the highest rates of low birthweight (LBW) among OECD countries, with significant disparities by race and ethnicity.
Black-White Disparities in Maternal In-Hospital Mortality According to Teaching and Black-Serving Hospital Status
Heather H. Burris, Molly Passarella, Sara C. Handley, Sindhu K. Srinivas, Scott A. Lorch
Abstract [from journal]
Background: Maternal mortality is higher among Black compared to White people in the United States. Whether Black-White disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality during the delivery hospitalization vary across hospital types (Black-serving vs. non-Black-serving and teaching vs. non-teaching) and whether overall maternal mortality differs across hospital types is not known.
Objectives: 1) Determine whether risk-adjusted Black-White disparities in maternal mortality during the delivery
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