Development of an instrument to measure awareness and mitigation of bias in maternal healthcare.

Background: Implicit bias among maternal healthcare professionals contributes to disrespectful care and racial and ethnic disparities in patient outcomes, and there is growing consensus that implicit bias training is a key component of birth equity initiatives. A requirement for implicit bias training for healthcare professionals has become more widespread, but the impact training has is largely unknown, in part, because of a lack of validated instruments. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a psychometrically valid instrument for use in the evaluation of implicit bias training.

A lack of race and ethnicity data in the treatment of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: a systematic review of intravenous bevacizumab efficacy.

Background: For extreme hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) disease, treatments such as intravenous bevacizumab are often utilized. However, whether its efficacy is similar across diverse races and ethnicities is unclear.

Methods: In this systematic review, we performed a search for English-language articles identified through PubMed, Embase, and Scopus databases whose research occurred in the United States (US).

Approaching the COVID-19 Pandemic Response With a Health Equity Lens: A Framework for Academic Health Systems.

Racially and ethnically diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities have historically been disproportionately affected by disasters and public health emergencies in the United States. The U.S.

Patient safety and healthcare quality: the case for language access.

This paper aims to provide a description of the need for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients, an identification of how the lack of CLAS for LEP patients can compromise patient safety and healthcare quality, and discuss barriers to the provision of CLAS.