Tag: Health Care Access / Disparities

60 percent of hospitals only offer patient portal access in English and Spanish

Findings seen across flu seasons and age groups

Survival rates also are lower for Black versus White people across various cancer types and categories of urbanicity

41 percent of practices declined to schedule appointment for hypothetical patient weighing 465 lb; 52 percent lacked basic standards of care

Low educational level, household income among women and men are associated with lower fecundability

Detection rates up for lesions not routinely detected on four-chamber view but visible on outflow tract views

Highest death rates for hypertensive renal disease were seen among Black individuals; rates also up for Hispanics

Lack of nephrology care accounts for proportion of incident vascular access, maturing vascular access underuse among Hispanic individuals

Incidence of acute ischemic stroke more than three times higher for NHOPI individuals compared with non-Hispanic White individuals

Black men have double the prostate cancer mortality and 67 percent higher incidence than White men