Medscape March 15, 2021
The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) has released its list of top 10 patient safety concerns for 2021 – and eight of them are related to or have been exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare tops ECRI’s list of patient safety challenges facing healthcare organizations this year.
Those in the Hispanic and Latinx population have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. They are three times more likely to be hospitalized and are twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as White non-Hispanic people, ECRI notes.
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But racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare go beyond the pandemic. Maternal mortality is 3.3 times as high among Black mothers as among White mothers, and Black...
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