Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery
Health equity is defined as the sixth domain of healthcare quality. Understanding health disparities in acute care surgery (defined as trauma surgery, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care) is key to identifying targets that will improve outcomes and ensure delivery of high-quality ca...
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| description | Health equity is defined as the sixth domain of healthcare quality. Understanding health disparities in acute care surgery (defined as trauma surgery, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care) is key to identifying targets that will improve outcomes and ensure delivery of high-quality care within healthcare organizations. Implementing a health equity framework within institutions such that local acute care surgeons can ensure equity is a component of quality is imperative. Recognizing this need, the AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee convened an expert panel entitled ‘Quality Care is Equitable Care’ at the 81st annual meeting in September 2022 (Chicago, Illinois). Recommendations for introducing health equity metrics within health systems include: (1) capturing patient outcome data including patient experience data by race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity; (2) ensuring cultural competency (eg, availability of language services; identifying sources of bias or inequities); (3) prioritizing health literacy; and (4) measuring disease-specific disparities such that targeted interventions are developed and implemented. A stepwise approach is outlined to include health equity as an organizational quality indicator. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0677f3c13a3f4666ab5e075e5a6ce6522025-08-20T02:48:35ZengBMJ Publishing GroupTrauma Surgery & Acute Care Open2397-57762023-11-018110.1136/tsaco-2023-001098Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgeryLillian S Kao0Brandon Bruns1Lisa M Knowlton2Cherisse Berry3Tanya Zakrison4Suresh Agarwal,5Marta L McCrum6Kathie-Ann Joseph7Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston, Houston, Texas, USADepartment of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA1 Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA7 Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USASurgery, University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, Chicago, Illinois, USA3 Division of Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA4 Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake, Utah, USA7 Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USAHealth equity is defined as the sixth domain of healthcare quality. Understanding health disparities in acute care surgery (defined as trauma surgery, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care) is key to identifying targets that will improve outcomes and ensure delivery of high-quality care within healthcare organizations. Implementing a health equity framework within institutions such that local acute care surgeons can ensure equity is a component of quality is imperative. Recognizing this need, the AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee convened an expert panel entitled ‘Quality Care is Equitable Care’ at the 81st annual meeting in September 2022 (Chicago, Illinois). Recommendations for introducing health equity metrics within health systems include: (1) capturing patient outcome data including patient experience data by race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity; (2) ensuring cultural competency (eg, availability of language services; identifying sources of bias or inequities); (3) prioritizing health literacy; and (4) measuring disease-specific disparities such that targeted interventions are developed and implemented. A stepwise approach is outlined to include health equity as an organizational quality indicator.https://tsaco.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001098.full |
| spellingShingle | Lillian S Kao Brandon Bruns Lisa M Knowlton Cherisse Berry Tanya Zakrison Suresh Agarwal, Marta L McCrum Kathie-Ann Joseph Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open |
| title | Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery |
| title_full | Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery |
| title_short | Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery |
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