Different needs or treated differently? Understanding ethnic inequalities in coronary revascularisation rates.

Background: Several studies have reported major ethnic inequalities in cardiac revascularisation. This paper attempts to explain why in New Zealand, Māori and Pacific patients may be less likely to receive cardiac revascularisation interventions than Europeans.

Methods: Angiograms of 55 Māori, 45 Pacific and 100 age-sex matched European patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction were reviewed by two cardiologists blinded to the patients' ethnicity to determine ethnic differences in actual and recommended revascularisation likelihood.

The use of interpretive description within Kaupapa Māori research.

Kaupapa Māori research (KMR) is an Indigenous research approach that is decolonizing and transformative. Interpretive description (ID) is a qualitative methodology used to generate knowledge relevant to the applied health disciplines. In this article, we discuss how we combined KMR and ID to investigate the experiences of Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) with aphasia and their whānau (extended family).

Reducing ethnic disparities in the quality of trauma care: an important research gap.

Objective: To identify interventions for reducing ethnic disparities in the quality of trauma care.

Background: Variation in the quality of health care is recognized as an important contributor to ethnic disparities in many domains of health. Although recent articles document ethnic variations in the quality of trauma care in several countries, strategies that address these disparities have received little attention.