Health Affairs February 25, 2022
While both patient safety and health equity have been individually and extensively studied, the intersection between patient safety and health equity has not received the same attention. The small body of research on this intersection has revealed race differences in patient safety incidence and reporting. Studies have demonstrated that Black patients consistently experience higher rates of hospital-acquired illnesses and injuries during surgical procedures than White patients. Other studies examined voluntary patient safety event reports, which are descriptions of safety issues directly from health care staff; these studies revealed differences in event reporting by patient race, with fewer reports for Black patients. Further, voluntary safety event reporting differences were found by race when compared to automated chart abstraction, an algorithm-based approach...
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