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Unfortunately, our health care system often distributes services inefficiently and unevenly across populations, and some Americans receive worse care than others in the United States. Variations in health care and health status among racial and ethnic and socioeconomic groups continue to challenge the nation.</p> <p>The nature and size of quality disparities for vulnerable populations also vary across geographic areas, such that some States have larger gaps than others, as can be seen in State Snapshots. Even areas with smaller disparities between populations may warrant quality improvement efforts if the overall population is experiencing lower quality care.</p> <p>The combination of unique population demographics and health care environments coupled with access to policy and program levers makes States an appropriate initiator of action to reduce health care disparities. States also have new opportunities and incentives to address health disparities in light of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).</p> <p>As States increasingly pursue activities to improve the health status and quality of care for vulnerable populations, such as racial and ethnic groups, AHRQ is developing and facilitating access to tools that can aid States in their efforts. Below are seven categories of resources useful to quality improvement and disparities reduction available to States:</p> <h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2> <ul> <li><a title="Raising Awareness" href="#RaisingAwareness" rel="nofollow">Raising Awareness</a></li> <li><a title="Collecting Data" href="#CollectingData" rel="nofollow">Collecting Data</a></li> <li><a title="Analyzing Data" href="#AnalyzingData" rel="nofollow">Analyzing Data</a></li> <li><a title="Reporting Data" href="#ReportingData" rel="nofollow">Reporting Data</a></li> <li><a title="Identifying Best Practices" href="#IdentifyingBestPractices" rel="nofollow">Identifying Best Practices</a></li> <li><a title="Focusing on Specific Vulnerable Populations" href="#Focusing" rel="nofollow">Focusing on Specific Vulnerable Populations</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="RaisingAwareness">Raising Awareness</h3> <p><a title="return to contents" href="#Contents" rel="nofollow">return to contents</a> <a title="next section" href="#CollectingData" rel="nofollow">next section</a></p> <table style="width: 100%; height: 672px;" role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Raising Awareness."> <colgroup> <col /> <col /> <col /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/index.html?utm_source=nhqrnet&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=nettochart" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">Summarizes health care quality and access among various racial, ethnic, and income groups and other priority populations, such as residents of rural areas and people with disabilities. Also reports trends in health care quality, including effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="CDC" href="http://www.cdc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CDC</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Health Disparities and Inequalities Report-United States (2013)" href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/su6203.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Health Disparities and Inequalities Report-United States (2013)</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Consolidates the most recent national data available on disparities in mortality, morbidity, behavioral risk factors, health care access, preventive health services, and social determinants of critical health problems in the US across selected indicators</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="HHS" href="http://www.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HHS</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="Healthy People 2020" href="https://health.gov/healthypeople" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Healthy People 2030</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;">Provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="HHS" href="http://www.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HHS</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="HHS Disparities Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Implementation Progress Report 2011-2014" href="https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/hhs-action-plan-reduce-racial-ethnic-health-disparities-implementation-progress-report-2011-2014-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HHS Disparities Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Implementation Progress Report 2011-2014</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Outlines goals and actions HHS will take to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="NAM" href="https://nam.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NAM</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Unequal Treatment (2002)" href="https://www.nap.edu/resource/10260/disparities_providers.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Unequal Treatment (2002)</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Assesses the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities, explores contributing factors, and recommends policies and practices to eliminate these inequities</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="CDC" href="http://www.cdc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CDC</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI) National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)" href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/nhpi.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI) National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">The NHPI NHIS was an unprecedented opportunity to collect rich and accurate information from a large NHPI sample about the health of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders in all 50 states.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="HHS" href="http://www.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HHS</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Healthy People 2020 Health Disparities Widget" href="https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/healthy-people-2020-health-disparities-data-widget" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Healthy People 2020 Health Disparities Widget</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Healthy People 2020 has created a widget that displays disparities data related to the Healthy People 2020 objectives for the Leading Health Indicators (LHIs).</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="CMS" href="http://www.cms.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CMS</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="Mapping Medicare Disparities" href="https://data.cms.gov/mapping-medicare-disparities" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Mapping Medicare Disparities</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;">Addressing Disparities and Improving Quality</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="NAM" href="https://nam.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NAM</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress" href="https://www.nap.edu/catalog/19402/vital-signs-core-metrics-for-health-and-health-care-progress" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;">A multi-stakeholder consensus based product describing a concise list of measures that provide a snapshot of health and healthcare.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="HRSA" href="https://www.hrsa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HRSA</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="Health Equity Report 2017" href="https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/about/organization/bureaus/ohe/hrsa-health-equity-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Health Equity Report 2019-2020</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;">HRSA’s report provides data on health inequities experienced by patients who are treated in HRSA-funded health centers.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="HHS" href="https://www.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HHS</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Think Culture Health" href="https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Think Culture Health</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Culture Health is a website that features information, continuing education opportunities, resources, and more for health and health care professionals to learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services, or CLAS.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Surgeon General" href="https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Surgeon General</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General" href="https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/2020-smoking-cessation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">Report on the benefits of smoking cessation at any age including premature death, risk of adverse health outcome and financial burden. The report also highlights the considerable disparities that exist in the prevalence of smoking as well as key indicators of smoking cessation.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="HP2020" href="https://www.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HHS</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a href="https://health.gov/healthypeople/tools-action/browse-evidence-based-resources/role-law-and-policy-assisting-families-reach-healthy-peoples-maternal-infant-and-child-health-breastfeeding-goals-united-states" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Role of Law and Policy in Assisting Families to Reach Healthy People’s Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Breastfeeding Goals in the United States</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">This report presents evidence-based policy solutions that community and tribal leaders, government officials, public health professionals, health care providers, lawyers, and social service providers can use in their communities to help meet breastfeeding goals.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="SAMHSA" href="https://www.samhsa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">SAMHSA</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Double Jeopardy: COVID-19 and Behavioral Health Disparities for Black and Latino Communities in the U.S. " href="https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/covid19-behavioral-health-disparities-black-latino-communities.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Double Jeopardy: COVID-19 and Behavioral Health Disparities for Black and Latino Communities in the U.S.</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Provides information on how the inequities in health care that communities of color experience has been magnified by COVID19. Disparities in access to behavioral health care has magnified disparities.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a title="return to the top of this section" href="#RaisingAwareness" rel="nofollow">return to the top of this section</a></p> <h3 id="CollectingData">Collecting Data</h3> <p><a title="return to contents" href="#Contents" rel="nofollow">return to contents</a> <a title="next section" href="#AnalyzingData" rel="nofollow">next section</a></p> <table role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Collecting Data."> <thead> <tr role="row"> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="Commonwealth Fund" href="http://www.commonwealthfund.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Commonwealth Fund</a></td> <td><a title="Racial, Ethnic, and Primary Language Data Collection in the Health Care System: An Assessment of Federal Policies and Practices (2001)" href="https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/documents/___media_files_publications_fund_report_2001_sep_racial__ethnic__and_primary_language_data_collection_in_the_health_care_system__an_assessment_of_fed_perot_racialethnic_492_pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Racial, Ethnic, and Primary Language Data Collection in the Health Care System: An Assessment of Federal Policies and Practices (2001)</a></td> <td>Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the policies and statutes governing the collection of health care data by race, ethnicity, and primary language</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="Health Research and Educational Trust" href="https://www.aha.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHA</a></td> <td><a title="The HRET Disparities Toolkit: A Toolkit for Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Information from Patients" href="https://www.aha.org/hretdisparities/toolkit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHA Disparities Toolkit</a></td> <td>Provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="NAM" href="https://nam.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NAM</a></td> <td><a title="Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Healthcare Quality Improvement (2009)" href="http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/2009/raceethnicitydata.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Healthcare Quality Improvement (2009)</a></td> <td>Recommends collection of more granular ethnicity and language data according to national standards</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="Robert Wood Johnson Foundation" href="https://www.chcs.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CHCS</a></td> <td><a title="The National Health Plan Collaborative Toolkit " href="https://www.chcs.org/resource/the-national-health-plan-collaborative-toolkit/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The National Health Plan Collaborative Toolkit </a></td> <td>Provides resources, lessons, best practices, and case studies to help health plans join the effort to reduce disparities</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="CDC" href="http://www.cdc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CDC</a></td> <td><a title="National Center for Health Statistics: Health, United States" href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">National Center for Health Statistics: Health, United States</a></td> <td>Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics developed by the National Center for Health Statistics.</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="HHS" href="http://www.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">HHS</a></td> <td><a title="The Office of Minority Health" href="https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Office of Minority Health</a></td> <td>The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities in the Department of Health and Human Services.</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td><a title="Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)" href="https://meps.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)</a></td> <td>The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States.</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td><a title="Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/research/data/hcup/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)</a></td> <td>HCUP is the Nation’s most comprehensive source of hospital care data, including information on in-patient stays, ambulatory surgery and services visits, and emergency department encounters.</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="NAM" href="https://nam.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NAM</a></td> <td><a title="Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress" href="https://www.nap.edu/catalog/19402/vital-signs-core-metrics-for-health-and-health-care-progress" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress</a></td> <td>Provides a streamlined set of 15 standardized measures that could provide consistent benchmarks for health progress across the nation and improve system performance in the highest priority areas</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="CMS" href="https://www.cms.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CMS</a></td> <td><a title="Addressing Disparities and Improving Quality" href="https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/OMH/Downloads/Data-Collection-Resources.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Addressing Disparities and Improving Quality</a></td> <td>Compendium of Resources for Standardized Collection of Demographic and Language Data Collection</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="AHRQ" href="https://ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td><a title="Quality improvement for CAHPS data" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Quality improvement for CAHPS data</a></td> <td>Quality improvement for CAHPS data</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="AHRQ" href="https://ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td><a title="Quality improvement using SOPS data" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/planningtool.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Quality improvement using SOPS data</a></td> <td>Quality improvement using SOPS data</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="CDC" href="https://cdc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CDC</a></td> <td><a title="United States Cancer Statistics" href="https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">United States Cancer Statistics</a></td> <td>The United States Cancer Statistics are combined cancer registry data from CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Together, these data provide the latest cancer information on the entire U.S. population.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a title="return to the top of this section" href="#CollectingData" rel="nofollow">return to the top of this section</a></p> <h3 id="AnalyzingData">Analyzing Data</h3> <p><a title="return to contents" href="#Contents" rel="nofollow">return to contents</a> <a title="next section" href="#ReportingData" rel="nofollow">next section</a></p> <table style="width: 100%; height: 96px;" role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Analyzing Data."> <thead> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;"><a title="NHQR/NHDR Web Site" href="https://datatools.ahrq.gov/nhqdr/" rel="nofollow noopener">NHQDR Data Tools</a></td> <td style="height: 24px;">Provides national and State health care quality information and data, including benchmarks and trends</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="ASTHO" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Health Equity Snapshot Map" href="https://datatools.ahrq.gov/hcupnet/" rel="nofollow noopener">HCUPnet: Instant Access to Hospital Statistics</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a title="return to the top of this section" href="#AnalyzingData" rel="nofollow">return to the top of this section</a></p> <h3 id="ReportingData">Reporting Data</h3> <p><a title="return to contents" href="#Contents" rel="nofollow">return to contents</a> <a title="next section" href="#IdentifyingBestPractices" rel="nofollow">next section</a></p> <table style="width: 100%; height: 600px;" role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Reporting Data."> <thead> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Talking Quality " href="https://cahps.ahrq.gov/consumer-reporting/talkingquality/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Talking Quality</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Provides guidance on how to communicate health care quality information in understandable and useful ways</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 96px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 96px;"><a title="NAM" href="https://nam.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NAM</a></td> <td style="height: 96px;"><a title="Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (2010)" href="https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12846/future-directions-for-the-national-healthcare-quality-and-disparities-reports" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (2010)</a></td> <td style="height: 96px;">Provides recommendations on how the NHQDR can be improved to make them more influential in promoting change in the health care system</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 96px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 96px;"><a title="NASHP" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 96px;"><a title="State Documentation of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities to Inform Strategic Action (2011)" href="https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/race/R_E_Disparities_rpt.jsp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">State Documentation of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities to Inform Strategic Action (2011)</a></td> <td style="height: 96px;">Summarizes how leading States analyze race/ethnicity data in strategic plans and reports aimed at reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health status and health care</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 96px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 96px;"><a title="NASHP" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 96px;"><a title="State Uses of Hospital Discharge Databases to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities (2010)" href="https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/race/C18RECaseStudyReportforWEBfinal99.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">State Uses of Hospital Discharge Databases to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities (2010)</a></td> <td style="height: 96px;">Summarizes how leading States that participate in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) and their clients use hospital discharge data on patient race/ethnicity to inform State health care disparities reduction activities</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Robert Wood Johnson Foundation" href="https://www.massgeneral.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Massachusetts General Hospital</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Creating Equity Reports: A guide for Hospitals (2008)" href="https://mghdisparitiessolutions.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/guide-creating-equity-reports.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Creating Equity Reports: A guide for Hospitals (2008)</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Provides a framework for equity reporting and shares lessons learned from experiences creating and using such reports</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 120px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 120px;"><a title="CMS" href="http://www.cms.gov/" rel="nofollow">CMS</a></td> <td style="height: 120px;"><a title="Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool" href="https://www.cms.gov/priorities/health-equity/minority-health/research-data/mapping-medicare-disparities-tool-mmd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) Tool</a></td> <td style="height: 120px;">The CMS Office of Minority Health has designed an interactive map, the Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool, to identify areas of disparities between subgroups of Medicare beneficiaries (e.g., racial and ethnic groups) in health outcomes, utilization, and spending. It is an excellent starting point to understand and investigate geographic and racial and ethnic differences in health outcomes. This information may be used to inform policy decisions and to target populations and geographies for potential interventions.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="CMS" href="https://www.cms.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CMS</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Hospital Compare" href="https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/?redirect=true&providerType=Hospital" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Hospital Compare</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated hospital performance data on the Hospital Compare website and on <a href="http://data.medicare.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">data.medicare.gov</a> to empower patients, families, and stakeholders with important information they need to compare hospitals and make informed healthcare decisions.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a title="return to the top of this section" href="#ReportingData" rel="nofollow">return to the top of this section</a></p> <h3 id="IdentifyingBestPractices">Identifying Best Practices</h3> <p><a title="return to contents" href="#Contents" rel="nofollow">return to contents</a> <a title="next section" href="#TrackingSuccess" rel="nofollow">next section</a></p> <table style="width: 100%; height: 552px;" role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Identifying Best Practices."> <colgroup> <col /> <col /> <col /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr style="height: 24px;" role="row"> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th style="height: 24px;" role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Quality Diagnostic Tools for States" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/tools/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Quality Diagnostic Tools for States</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">Consists of events and technical assistance opportunities that disseminate and encourage the use of AHRQ Quality Improvement tools to support State policymakers with their health care quality improvement efforts</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action (2008)" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/tools/diabsumm.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Helps States assess the quality of diabetes care and create quality improvement strategies</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action (2009)" href="https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/tools/asthmasumm.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Asthma Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Helps States assess the quality of asthma care and create quality improvement strategies</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="NAM" href="https://nam.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NAM</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary (2008)" href="https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12154/challenges-and-successes-in-reducing-health-disparities-workshop-summary" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities: Workshop Summary (2008)</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Summarizes workshop designed to increase the visibility of disparities and to develop strategies to reduce disparities</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="NQF" href="http://www.qualityforum.org/Home.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NQF</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Comprehensive Framework and Preferred Practices for Measuring and Reporting Cultural Competency (2009)" href="http://www.qualityforum.org/Publications/2009/04/A_Comprehensive_Framework_and_Preferred_Practices_for_Measuring_and_Reporting_Cultural_Competency.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Comprehensive Framework and Preferred Practices for Measuring and Reporting Cultural Competency (2009)</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">Outlines a comprehensive framework for measuring and reporting cultural competency and provides a detailed set of preferred practices for culturally competent care</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a href="https://essentialhospitals.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Essential Hospitals</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Assuring Healthcare Equity: A Healthcare Equity Blueprint (2008)" href="https://essentialhospitals.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/EquityBlueprint.pdf" rel="nofollow">Assuring Healthcare Equity: A Healthcare Equity Blueprint (2008)</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Offers strategies and practices that can be tailored to individual hospitals to address equity in providing quality care</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Robert Wood Johnson Foundation" href="https://www.massgeneral.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Massachusetts General Hospital</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: A Guide for Hospital Leaders (2008)" href="https://mghdisparitiessolutions.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/improving-quality-safety-guide-hospital-leaders_executive-summary.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: A Guide for Hospital Leaders</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">Serves as a health care quality improvement guide for CEOs, high-level managers in hospitals, and other leaders in the fields of safety, finance, and risk reduction in hospitals</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 48px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Robert Wood Johnson Foundation" href="http://www.rwjf.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;"><a title="Expecting Success Toolkit: Excellence in Cardiac Care (2008)" href="https://folio.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/10244/645/expectingsuccessfinalreport.pdf?sequence=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Expecting Success Toolkit: Excellence in Cardiac Care (2008)</a></td> <td style="height: 48px;">Provides tips for hospitals on improving the quality of care and reducing disparities based on the experience of 10 participating hospitals</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 72px;" role="row"> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="NAM" href="https://nam.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NAM</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;"><a title="Medications for Opioid Use Disorder" href="https://www.nap.edu/resource/25310/032019_OUDhighlights.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Medications for Opioid Use Disorder</a></td> <td style="height: 72px;">Report on the effectiveness and benefits of the medications used to treat opioid use disorder and major barriers including access and stigma that hamper the use of medications.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a title="return to the top of this section" href="#IdentifyingBestPractices" rel="nofollow">return to the top of this section</a></p> <h3 id="Focusing">Focusing on Specific Vulnerable Populations</h3> <p><a title="return to contents" href="#Contents" rel="nofollow">return to contents</a></p> <p><strong>Children and Adolescents</strong></p> <table role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Focusing on Specific Vulnerable Populations Children and Adolescents."> <thead> <tr role="row"> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="AHRQ" href="http://www.ahrq.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AHRQ</a></td> <td><a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Child Health Care Quality Toolbox: Measuring Quality in Children’s Health Programs</a></td> <td>Provides concepts, tips, and tools for evaluating the quality of health care for children</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Low Income Groups</strong></p> <table role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Focusing on Specific Vulnerable Populations Low Income Groups"> <thead> <tr role="row"> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="CMS" href="http://www.cms.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CMS</a></td> <td><a title="Health Care Coverage Analyses of the 2006 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (2014)" href="https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/quality-of-care/downloads/health-coverage-analyses-of-nhqr-2000-2008-trends.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Health Care Coverage Analyses of the 2000-2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (2014)</a></td> <td>For the first time, presents data on quality and racial and ethnic disparity measures by payer</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Older Americans</strong></p> <table role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Focusing on Specific Vulnerable Populations Older Americans."> <colgroup> <col /> <col /> <col /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr role="row"> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Source: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="0">Source</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Resource: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="1">Resource</th> <th role="columnheader" scope="col" aria-label="Description: No sort applied, activate to apply an ascending sort" data-column="2">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="CDC" href="http://www.cdc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CDC</a></td> <td><a title="Clinical Preventive Services for Older Adults" href="https://www.cdc.gov/aging/services/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Clinical Preventive Services for Older Adults</a></td> <td>Offers examples of recent activities and interventions that have focused on increasing the use of clinical preventive services in diverse communities</td> </tr> <tr role="row"> <td><a title="CDC" href="http://www.cdc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CDC</a></td> <td><a title="Promoting Preventive Services for Adults 50-64" href="https://www.cdc.gov/aging/pdf/promoting-preventive-services.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Promoting Preventive Services for Adults 50-64</a></td> <td>Identifies a set of recommended preventive services, provides indicators and data with which to monitor progress, and promotes successful strategies to facilitate adoption and use</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Women</strong></p> <table style="width: 99.8385%;" role="grid" border="1" cellpadding="10px" aria-label="Resources for Focusing on Specific Vulnerable Populations Women"> <colgroup> <col /> <col /> <col /> </colgroup> <thead> <tr role="row"> <th 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