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. 2022 Mar;99(4):1165-1171.
doi: 10.1002/ccd.30021. Epub 2021 Nov 27.

Identifying opportunities to advance health equity in interventional cardiology: Structural heart disease

Salman S Allana  1 , Mohamad Alkhouli  2 , Olueseun Alli  3 , Megan Coylewright  4 , Aaron Horne  5 , Nkechi Ijioma  6 , Sabeeda Kadavath  7 , Andres M Pineda  8 , Carlos Sanchez  9 , Theodore L Schreiber  10 , Atman P Shah  11 , Conrad Smith  12 , Hussam Suradi  13 , Kristyn E Sylvia  14 , Michael Young  15 , Sandeep K Krishnan  16
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Identifying opportunities to advance health equity in interventional cardiology: Structural heart disease

Salman S Allana et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2022 Mar.

Abstract

Health care practices are influenced by variety of factors. These factors that include social determinants, race and ethnicity, and gender not only affect access to health care but can also affect quality of care and patient outcomes. These are a source of health care disparities. This article acknowledges that these disparities exist in getting optimal care in structural heart disease, reviews the literature and proposes steps that can help reduce these disparities on personal and committee levels.

Keywords: disparities in health care; health care outcomes; health care policy; structural heart interventions.

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