Improving National Clinical Datasets for Health Equity Research

In spite of focused clinical, research, and policy efforts, great disparities in healthcare and outcomes persist. According to researchers, the key to solving many of these problems lies in making large clinical datasets more useful and informative for health disparities research. To this end the Health Disparities Collaborative Research Group was commissioned by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to improve data science and quality around health disparities. The group put forth recommendations in 3 primary domains: patient voice, accurate variables, and data linkage. Acting on these recommendations could potentially accelerate research that translates into fewer health inequities. Read the full article here.

(Source: Rebecca G Block et al., Recommendations for improving national clinical datasets for health equity research, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa144)