Building Equity Improvement into Quality Improvement: Reducing Socioeconomic Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening as Part of Population Health Management

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 942-949

  Berkowitz, Seth A ^a,b   Percac Lima, Sanja ^a,b   Ashburner, Jeffrey M ^a   Chang, Yuchiao ^a,b   Zai, Adrian H ^a,b   He, Wei ^a   Grant, Richard W ^c   Atlas, Steven J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer screening; colorectal cancer; health status disparities; quality improvement; socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; SOCIAL STATUS; TELECONSULTATION; URBAN POPULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84931560609     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3227-4     Document Type: Article

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