How to Address the Relationship Between Health Equity and Patient Safety

HealthLeaders Media September 26, 2023
Christopher Cheney

‘You basically cannot have patient safety without health equity,’ says Yale New Haven Health executive.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– Several health equity elements impact patient safety, including access to care, language barriers, transportation issues, and social supports.

– There are two primary approaches to addressing health equity issues in patient safety: understanding disparity indexes and including health equity elements as part of the framework of looking at safety events.

– At Yale New Haven Health, efforts to address health equity and patient safety led to changes in newborn toxicology testing because of a racial disparity.

Yale New Haven Health is striving to address the health equity elements of patient safety.

Health equity has become a top priority for healthcare providers nationwide....

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