Addressing health care disparities by improving quality and safety.

Sentinel Event Alerts

Addressing health care disparities by improving quality and safety.

November 24, 2021

Sentinel Event Alert. Nov 10 2021;(64):1-7.

Health care disparities are emerging as a core patient safety issue. This alert introduces strategies to align organizational and patient safety strategic goals, such as collection and analysis of community-level performance data, adoption of diversity and inclusion as a precursor to improvement, and development of business cases to support inequity reduction initiatives.

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