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Qual Saf Health Care. 2006 April; 15(2): 79–80.
doi: 10.1136/qshc.2006.017749.
PMCID: PMC2464839
Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care: an integral part of quality improvement scholarship
M H Chin and A T Chien
M H Chin, Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
A T Chien, Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Correspondence to: Dr M H Chin
University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; mchin@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Short abstract
It is vital that quality improvement interventions address this unacceptable problem
Keywords: quality improvement, ethnicity, race, equity, disparities