The paper, “Collecting and using race, ethnicity and language data in ambulatory settings: A white paper with recommendations from the Commission to End Health Care Disparities,” outlines several benefits of collecting demographic data, including eliminating disparities, optimizing practice resources to improve quality, improving the data used in pay-for-performance incentive programs and competing in a quickly-changing market. The paper also recommends strategies for collecting and using patient demographic data in ambulatory settings.
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The Commission says one way to optimize investment in quality improvement initiatives is to determine which sub-populations are more likely to receive poorer quality care and target those populations for specific interventions. The paper suggests optimizing investment in QI efforts is particularly important for smaller physician practices because physicians in these settings have historically been less involved in formal QI activities than physicians in large practices.
Read “Collecting and using race, ethnicity and language data in ambulatory settings: A white paper with recommendations from the Commission to End Health Care Disparities” (pdf).
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