Allana Salman S, Alkhouli Mohamad, Alli Olueseun, Coylewright Megan, Horne Aaron, Ijioma Nkechi, Kadavath Sabeeda, Pineda Andres M, Sanchez Carlos, Schreiber Theodore L, Shah Atman P, Smith Conrad, Suradi Hussam, Sylvia Kristyn E, Young Michael, Krishnan Sandeep K
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Department of Cardiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2022 Mar;99(4):1165-1171. doi: 10.1002/ccd.30021. Epub 2021 Nov 27.
Health care practices are influenced by variety of factors. These factors that include social determinants, race and ethnicity, and gender not only affect access to health care but can also affect quality of care and patient outcomes. These are a source of health care disparities. This article acknowledges that these disparities exist in getting optimal care in structural heart disease, reviews the literature and proposes steps that can help reduce these disparities on personal and committee levels.
医疗保健实践受到多种因素的影响。这些因素包括社会决定因素、种族和民族以及性别,它们不仅影响获得医疗保健的机会,还会影响医疗质量和患者预后。这些是医疗保健差异的根源。本文承认在结构性心脏病的最佳治疗方面存在这些差异,回顾了相关文献,并提出了有助于在个人和委员会层面减少这些差异的措施。