In a study examining data from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) recipients, Ashwin Nathan and colleagues found that patients who were Black, older, female, or higher risk were less likely to undergo PCI – potentially due to the “risk-treatment paradox.”
Paula Chatterjee and colleagues revealed that from 2000 to 2019, hospital assets more than doubled—but the gains were concentrated among already wealthy institutions.
Heather Burris, Kristan Scott, and colleagues found that birthing parents of preterm infants—those born before 35 weeks’ gestation and routinely admitted to the NICU—lacked postpartum care more often than parents of infants born after 35 weeks.
In an op-ed in TheChicago Tribune, Shana Stites and Rebecca T. Brown argued that the recent deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa highlight that improving outcomes for caregivers will improve the well-being of the person with dementia.
At our recent virtual seminar, a panel of experts warned that millions could lose care, rural hospitals may shutter, and state budgets would be strained.
Federal support for LGBTQ+ health care and research is vanishing. At our event during Penn Medicine's Health Equity Week, a panel of national experts explored what this means for patient care, data, and the future of health equity.
The Legacies of Structural Racism and its Impacts on Mental Health Among Low-Income Black Young Adults: Findings From the Black Economic Equity Movement (BEEM)
“Change in Default Prescription Length and Statin Prescribing Behavior.” Mili Mehta, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Corinne M. Rhodes, Aria Xiong, Christopher K. Snider, E. Madeline Grenader, Michael O. Harhay, Nune Mehrabyan, Maryanne K. Peifer, Kevin G. M. Volpp, M. Kit Delgado. JAMA Internal Medicine
“Maternity Providers' Moral Experiences Addressing Maternal Drug Use.” Caroline K. Darlington, Peggy Compton, Rebecca Clark, Connie M. Ulrich. Nursing Ethics
“Association of Race and Ethnicity with Healthcare Utilization for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the United States: A Retrospective Cohort Study.” Abraham Segura, Colleen Brensinger, Virginia Pate, Shazia M. Siddique, Lauren Parlett, Andres Hurtado-Lorenzo, Michael David Kappelman, James D. Lewis. American Journal of Gastroenterology
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