Dismantling Racism and Inequity in Health Care: The Critical Interplay Between Equity, Quality, and Safety

NEJM October 27, 2020
Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS & Namita Seth Mohta, MD

Quality and safety is a powerful, established system that providers can leverage to advance equity in health care.

Summary

The Medical Director for Quality, Safety, and Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital describes how his organization has woven equity and anti-racism efforts into their already well-established quality and safety procedures. By operationalizing these efforts, making them part of everyday tasks such as through reporting, they are working to dismantle health care inequities and their associated risks at both the individual and systemic level.

Namita Seth Mohta, MD, interviews Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS, Medical Director for Quality, Safety, and Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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