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Strategies for improving minority healthcare quality
Completed: November 2003

Investigators

Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
Karen A. Robinson, MSc
Eboni G. Price, MD
Tiffany Gary, PhD
Mollie W. Jenckes, MHS, BSN 
Aysegul Gozu, MD
Carole Smarth, MD
Ana Palacio, MD
Carolyn J. Feuerstein, BA
Eric B. Bass, MD, MPH
Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Questions
The following research questions are being addressed:

  1. What strategies targeted at health care providers or organizations, have been shown to improve minority healthcare quality? a) which of these strategies have been shown to be effective in reducing disparities in health or in health care between minority and white populations? b) what are the costs of these strategies?
  2. What strategies have been shown to improve the cultural competence of healthcare providers or organizations? a) what are the costs of these strategies?


 

  

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