National Institutes of Health diversity supplements: Perspectives from administrative insiders.

Background: The NIH Diversity Administrative Supplement is a funding mechanism that provides support for diverse early-stage researchers. There is limited guidance on how to apply for these awards.

Purpose: We describe perspectives of NIH program/diversity officers and university research administrators offering recommendations for diversity supplement submission.

Demystifying the National Institutes of Health diversity supplement: Mentee and mentor experiences and recommendations.

Background: The National Institutes of Health supports professional development of diverse researchers through diversity supplements. Limited awareness and understanding of the application process have hindered utilization of this funding mechanism.

Purpose: We describe perspectives and recommendations of mentee and mentor recipients of diversity supplements.

Effects of patients and hospital characteristics on myocardial infarction mortality: health disparity outcomes.

Objective: To evaluate if patient characteristics would have significant effects on outcomes for inpatients' Myocardial Infarction (MI) with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) admitted to Non-Federal Hospitals.

Methods: We used data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project under the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HCUP_AHRQ, 2006) and data were retrospectively analyzed. This database was the latest HCUP data available in 2008, when the study was initiated.

African American health disparities in lung cancer.

Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and globally. African Americans experience significant differences in lung cancer incidence and mortality. Smoking is the single greatest risk for lung cancer, making smoking cessation programs a potentially fruitful approach for reducing the risk of lung cancer.

Exploring the disparities in health-care outcomes of inpatient diabetic myocardial infarction transfers in non-federal hospitals.

The purpose of the study was to assess whether patient transfer demonstrated health-care disparities in patients with myocardial infarction and type 2 diabetes mellitus who had been admitted to non-federal hospitals in 2006. This was a secondary data analyses. Retrospective data was extracted from the 2006 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS).