Peer support specialists can link patients with substance use disorders to treatment, but this study showed disparate outcomes for how one program impacted access to care for Black and white patients.

Racial disparities in long-term care facilities impact quality of life for residents who are Black, Indigenous, or other persons of color.

With the steep increase in use of telehealth and video visits in the last few years, the reliance on technology-enabled medicine may heighten disparities in health care access.

Reveals inequities in how aging adults’ care preferences are taken into account based on race/ethnicity, income, health insurance status, and other variables.

Black, Hispanic, and low-income patients are significantly less likely to receive care from high-quality home health agencies.

Medical notes about Black patients were more than twice as likely to contain stigmatizing language compared to white patients.

Identifies opportunities for nursing homes to support more equitable and low-intensity care for nursing facility residents with advanced dementia.

Advancing more equitable access to telehealth may require care coordination strategies deployed alongside telehealth.

Supports the use of telehealth and technology-assisted services to increase access to care and improve outcomes for people who use drugs.

Global budgets for hospitals reduced expenditures and utilization for some Medicare subpopulations with complex health and social needs, yet disparities existed for some subgroups.

Analysis of 310 health systems showed gaps in opioid receipt between Black and white patients, especially on dosage, which may be related to racial bias among clinicians.

Trust, flexible funding, cross-sector support, sustainability, and an explicit focus on structural racism are identified as key components of effective community engagement to advance health equity.

Black Medicaid enrollees who spent more days in the emergency department or county jail were less likely than white enrollees to receive medications for opioid use disorder.

Offers practical recommendations to improve telemedicine interventions to be more equitable for diverse populations, particularly those with low incomes.

Includes patient- and staff-reported measures to help complex care programs better understand the impacts of interventions.

Presents a framework and tools to help health care organizations and communities design a community-based palliative care program to meet patient needs in rural settings.

Disparities in transitional care training for caregivers of older adults based on race or financial status demonstrate need for changes in discharge processes and strategies to address bias.

Toolkit details how hospitals and health systems can use patient race, ethnicity, and language data to advance health equity and eliminate disparities.

Many physicians report low confidence in caring for patients with disability and negative perceptions about quality of life with a disability, which may reflect biased views that potentially contribute to persistent health disparities.

Health care organizations can use population-level data sources about the experiences of people with disabilities to improve care.