Key result
Health care disparities in structural heart disease care exist due to social determinants, race, ethnicity, and gender, requiring steps on personal and committee levels to reduce them.
Why the study?
Factors including social determinants, race and ethnicity, and gender affect access, quality of care, and outcomes, leading to disparities in optimal care for structural heart disease.
This review highlights existing healthcare disparities in structural heart disease and proposes actionable steps to advance health equity.
Disparities in structural heart disease care persist; review leaves open the impact of proposed personal and committee-level mitigation steps.
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.
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Allana et al. (2021) conducted a review in Structural heart disease. Health care disparities was evaluated. Health care disparities in structural heart disease care exist due to social determinants, race, ethnicity, and gender, requiring steps on personal and committee levels to reduce them.
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