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Impact of Health Disparities Collaboratives on Racial/Ethnic and Insurance Disparities in US Communi
Impact of Health Disparities Collaboratives on Racial/Ethnic and Insurance Disparities in US Community Health Centers
On 2010 the American Medical Association published "Impact of Health Disparities Collaboratives on Racial/Ethnic and Insurance Disparities in US Community Health Centers". The following study: "examined whether HDCs reduced disparities in quality by race/ethnicity or insurance status in CHCs nationally. We performed a controlled preintervention/postintervention study of 44 CHCs participating
in HDCs for asthma, diabetes mellitus, or hypertension and 20 “external” control CHCs that had not participated. Each intervention center also served as an “internal” control for another condition. For each condition, we created an overall quality score, defined disparities
in care as the differences in care between racial/ethnic groups and insurance groups, and examined changes in disparity through a series of hierarchical models using a 3-way interaction term among period, patient characteristics of interest, and treatment group."
For more informoation visit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20142575
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