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Some racial and ethnic minority patients experience lower-quality health care compared to white patients. This disparity is unacceptable. Health care systems need better tools, strategies and interventions to address the racial and ethnic disparities in their quality improvement agendas. Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is evaluating 33 interventions around the U.S. aimed at reducing these inequities. Finding Answers will disseminate successful interventions broadly. |
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High-Touch Intervention Yields Success for Patients with Diabetes, Hypertension
1-17-12
A new health behavior intervention has been spelling success for North Carolina patients with diabetes and hypertension. The intervention, Cholesterol, Hypertension and Glucose Education, or CHANGE, was piloted in a study led by principal investigator Hayden Bosworth, PhD, at Duke University Medical Center, and rolled out this spring to patients enrolled in the Northern Piedmont Community Care system. The demonstrated success of the program is leading to an expected expansion of the intervention to all North Carolina Medicaid practices in the coming months.
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