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Strategies to reduce diabetes disparities: an updateJoseph R Betancourt
The Disparities Solutions Center, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Curr Diab Rep 12:762-8. 2012..Ultimately, these efforts should improve the quality of care for all persons with diabetes, especially those who are most vulnerable...
Personal responsibility versus responsible options: health care, community health promotion, and the battle against chronic diseaseJoseph R Betancourt
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A41. 2007- Unequal treatment in the US: lessons and recommendations for cancer care internationallyJoseph R Betancourt
The Disparities Solutions Center, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 33:S149-53. 2011..If we hope to provide effective cancer care around the world, we must be attentive to the factors that impact minorities and vulnerable populations, and be prepared to address them... 
Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care: what is the role of academic medicine?Joseph R Betancourt
Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford St, Ste 942, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Med 81:788-92. 2006..Academic medicine must make the elimination of health care disparities a critical part of its mission, and provide national leadership by identifying quality improvement innovations and creating disparities solutions...- Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health careJoseph R Betancourt
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Public Health Rep 118:293-302. 2003.... - Commentary: linking cultural competence training to improved health outcomes: perspectives from the fieldJoseph R Betancourt
The Disparities Solutions Center, The Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Acad Med 85:583-5. 2010..Just as medicine strives to meet other challenges in U.S. health care, so should it focus on developing the skills needed to care for the country's diverse population... - Cultural competency: providing quality care to diverse populationsJoseph R Betancourt
The Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Massachusetts, USA
Consult Pharm 21:988-95. 2006..The goal of this paper is to define cultural competence and present a practical framework to address crosscultural challenges that emerge in the clinical encounter, with a particular focus on the issue of nonadherence... - Cross-cultural medical education in the United States: key principles and experiencesJoseph R Betancourt
The Disparities Solutions Center, The Institute for Health Policy, Multicultural Education and Multicultural Affairs Office, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kaohsiung J Med Sci 25:471-8. 2009.... - Providing culturally competent care: residents in HRSA Title VII funded residency programs feel better preparedAlexander R Green
The Disparities Solutions Center at the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Acad Med 83:1071-9. 2008..The authors sought to determine whether primary care residents in Title VII-funded training programs feel better prepared than those in nonfunded programs to provide care to culturally diverse patients... - Mixed messages: residents' experiences learning cross-cultural careElyse R Park
Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Med 80:874-80. 2005..This article explores a select group of residents' perceptions of their preparedness to deliver quality care to diverse populations... - Internal medicine residents' perceptions of cross-cultural training. Barriers, needs, and educational recommendationsElyse R Park
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:476-80. 2006..Despite widespread interest in cross-cultural care, little is known about resident physicians' perceptions of what will best enable them to provide quality care to diverse patient populations... - Measuring residents' perceived preparedness and skillfulness to deliver cross-cultural careElyse R Park
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1053-6. 2009..As patient populations become increasingly diverse, we need to be able to measure residents' preparedness and skillfulness to provide cross-cultural care... - Bridging the digital divide in health care: the role of health information technology in addressing racial and ethnic disparitiesLenny Lopez
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 37:437-45. 2011..CONCLUSIONS: As investments are made in HIT, consideration must be given to the impact that these innovations have on the quality and cost of health care for all patients, including those who experience disparities... - Primary care resident perceived preparedness to deliver cross-cultural care: an examination of training and specialty differencesJoseph A Greer
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1107-13. 2007..The goals of this study were to identify factors that relate to primary care residents' perceived preparedness to provide cross-cultural care and to explore the extent to which these perceptions vary across primary care specialties... - The IOM report unequal treatment: lessons for clinical practiceJoseph R Betancourt
Disparities Solutions Center, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Del Med J 77:339-48. 2005 - The Institute of Medicine report "Unequal Treatment": implications for academic health centersJoseph R Betancourt
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, 9th Floor, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 71:314-21. 2004..The report=s recommendations are broad in scope, yet have direct implications for academic health centers... - A plan for action: key perspectives from the racial/ethnic disparities strategy forumRoderick K King
The Disparities Solutions Center, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Milbank Q 86:241-72. 2008..Racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the United States have been well documented, with research largely focusing on describing the problem rather than identifying the best practices or proven strategies to address it... - Leveraging quality improvement to achieve equity in health careAlexander R Green
Disparities Solutions Center, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:435-42. 2010..CONCLUSIONS: To achieve equity in health care, hospitals and other health care organizations should move toward culturally competent QI and disparities-targeted QI interventions to achieve equity in health care, a key pillar of quality... - Cultural competence--marginal or mainstream movement?Joseph R Betancourt
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 351:953-5. 2004 - Barriers to health promotion and disease prevention in the Latino populationJoseph R Betancourt
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, USA
Clin Cornerstone 6:16-26; discussion 27-9. 2004.... - Cultural competence and health care disparities: key perspectives and trendsJoseph R Betancourt
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:499-505. 2005..Yet the motivations for advancing cultural competence and approaches taken vary depending on mission, goals, and sphere of influence... - Designing and implementing a cultural competence OSCE: lessons learned from interviews with medical studentsAlexander R Green
Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ethn Dis 17:344-50. 2007..We designed an OSCE station emphasizing cross-cultural communication skills (ccOSCE) and interviewed students to better understand and improve upon this tool... - Evaluation of medical student self-rated preparedness to care for limited English proficiency patientsFatima Rodriguez
Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Med Educ 11:26. 2011..We used data from a survey of medical students' cross-cultural preparedness, skills, and training to specifically explore their self-rated preparedness to care for LEP patients... - Cross-cultural medical education: conceptual approaches and frameworks for evaluationJoseph R Betancourt
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Acad Med 78:560-9. 2003.... - IOM highlights health disparities: implications for health plansJoseph R Betancourt
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Healthplan 43:30-3, 36. 2002 - Racial and sex differences in emergency department triage assessment and test ordering for chest pain, 1997-2006Lenny Lopez
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:801-8. 2010..This study assessed whether sociodemographic differences exist in triage assignment and whether these differences affect initial diagnostic testing in the emergency department (ED) for patients presenting with chest pain... - Cultural competence and medical education: many names, many perspectives, one goalJoseph R Betancourt
The Disparities Solutions Center, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Acad Med 81:499-501. 2006..Call it what you will, the field of cultural competence aims quite simply to assure that health care providers are prepared to provide quality care to diverse populations... - Racial and ethnic disparities in health care: no one suspect, no one solutionJoseph R Betancourt
Disparities Solutions Center, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Del Med J 77:333-4. 2005 - Barriers to screening colonoscopy for low-income Latino and white patients in an urban community health centerAlexander R Green
The Disparities Solutions Center at the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:834-40. 2008..Colonoscopy is a screening modality for the early detection of colonic polyps and cancers but is underutilized, particularly among minorities... - Access to care and use of preventive services by Hispanics: state-based variations from 1991 to 2004Minah Kang-Kim
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Med Care 46:507-15. 2008..State-level disparities in access to physicians and preventive services between Hispanics and whites may have changed over time... - Differences between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites in use of hospital procedures for cerebrovascular diseaseAnne Elixhauser
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Ethn Dis 12:29-37. 2002..This study examined disparities in the use of in-hospital diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for Hispanics with cerebrovascular disease compared to their non-Hispanic White counterparts... - Unequal treatment: the Institute of Medicine report and its public health implicationsJoseph R Betancourt
Public Health Rep 118:287-92. 2003 - Health care disparities in emergency medicineDavid C Cone
Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:1176-83. 2003.... - Who is at greatest risk for receiving poor-quality health care?H Jack Geiger
N Engl J Med 354:2617-9; author reply 2617-9. 2006 - Resident physicians' use of professional and nonprofessional interpreters: a national surveyKaren C Lee
JAMA 296:1050-3. 2006 - Recommendations for teaching about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health careWally R Smith
Division of Quality Health Care, Center on Health Disparities, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0306, USA
Ann Intern Med 147:654-65. 2007.... - Black physicians' experience with race: should we be surprised?Joseph R Betancourt
Ann Intern Med 146:68-9. 2007 - Why the disease-based model of medicine fails our patientsAlexander R Green
Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency. Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital 505 E 70th St - HT4 New York, NY 10021
West J Med 176:141-3. 2002 - Integrating social factors into cross-cultural medical educationAlexander R Green
Cornell Internal Medicine Associates, New York, NY 10021, USA
Acad Med 77:193-7. 2002....