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Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery
Lisa M Knowlton, Tanya Zakrison, Lillian S Kao, Marta L McCrum, Suresh Agarwal,, Brandon Bruns, Kathie-Ann Joseph, Cherisse Berry
DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2023-001098 Published 11 May 2023
Lisa M Knowlton
1
Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Tanya Zakrison
2
Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lillian S Kao
3
Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Marta L McCrum
4
Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Suresh Agarwal, Jr
5
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Brandon Bruns
6
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA
Kathie-Ann Joseph
7
Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
8
NYU Langone Health’s Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Cherisse Berry
7
Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
8
NYU Langone Health’s Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery
Lisa M Knowlton, Tanya Zakrison, Lillian S Kao, Marta L McCrum, Suresh Agarwal,, Brandon Bruns, Kathie-Ann Joseph, Cherisse Berry
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 2023, 8 (1) e001098; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2023-001098
Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery
Lisa M Knowlton, Tanya Zakrison, Lillian S Kao, Marta L McCrum, Suresh Agarwal,, Brandon Bruns, Kathie-Ann Joseph, Cherisse Berry
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 2023, 8 (1) e001098; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2023-001098
Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery
Lisa M Knowlton, Tanya Zakrison, Lillian S Kao, Marta L McCrum, Suresh Agarwal,, Brandon Bruns, Kathie-Ann Joseph, Cherisse Berry
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open May 2023, 8 (1) e001098; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2023-001098
- Article
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Health disparities and health inequities in trauma
- Social determinants of health and outcomes within acute care surgery
- Defining and measuring health equity metrics in acute care surgery
- Health equity as a quality metric: the sixth domain of quality
- Integrating health equity as a key quality metric in your institution
- Conclusion
- Ethics statements
- Footnotes
- References
- Figures & Data
- eLetters
- Info & Metrics