Advancing health equity in patient safety: a reckoning, challenge and opportunity

• Published in: BMJ quality & safety Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 356 - 361
• Main Author: Chin, Marshall H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Bias; Government programs; Health disparities; Hospitals; Legislation; Minority & ethnic groups; Patient safety; Police; Poverty; Professional associations; Public awareness; Quality of care; Racism; Safety; Socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomics; United States > US; health services research; health professions education; health policy

COVID-19 and police brutality have simultaneously heightened public awareness of disparities in health outcomes by race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status, and the underlying structural drivers of systemic racism and social privilege in the USA.1 2 Increasingly major professional associatio...