In this episode, Dr Jamie Coleman is joined by Elzerie de Jager, MBBS(Hons), PhD, from the University of Vermont and the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; and LD Britt MD, MPH, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School. They discuss their study, in which a Delphi panel identified 125 potential disparity-sensitive measures which could be used to track health disparity, evaluate the impact of focused interventions, and reduce healthcare inequity.

de Jager, Elzerie MBBS(HONS), PhD; Osman, Samia Y MD, MPP; Levine, Adele A MPH; Liu, Charles MD, MS; Maggard Gibbons, Melinda A MD, MHSH, FACS; Ko, Clifford Y MD, MS, MSHS, FACS; Burstin, Helen R MD, MPH; Haider, Adil H MD, MPH, FACS; Hoyt, David B MD, FACS; Schoenfeld, Andrew J MD, MS; Britt, LD MD, MPH, FACS; Weissman, Joel S PhD. Disparity-Sensitive Measures in Surgical Care: A Delphi Panel Consensus. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 236(1):p 135-143, January 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000000420 

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