Achieving health equity is increasingly understood to be an essential priority for providers and for organizations throughout the larger health care system. The authors describe a four-tier model that offers a pragmatic framework to establish measurements that will advance equity for both the patients and the staff of the health care provider organization.
New England Journal of Medicine, Health Care Equity: From Fragmentation to Transformation
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