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Health Equity in Hospital Medicine: Foundations, Populations, and Action

Health Equity in Hospital Medicine: Foundations, Populations, and Action

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ISBN10: 3031449983
ISBN13: 9783031449987
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 17 2023
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.29
Language: English


Hospital-based physicians are privy to some of the most meaningful moments of people's lives, including life-changing diagnoses, pivotal medical procedures, complex medical decisions, and critical end-of-life decisions. Yet, hospitalists have no framework for how to incorporate the varied social factors that impact care such as race, gender identity, cultural background, immigration status, sexual orientation, primary language, housing status, and poverty into clinical decision-making. As hospital physicians, we may use interpreters for our limited English proficiency patients, or try to incorporate questions about cultural practices into our admission histories, or even ask our patients about the ways in which they feel racism has affected their care, but these practices are inconsistently applied and lack a systematic framework for ensuring that the hospital care we provide is truly equitable.

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