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Researchers Discuss How Patient-Centered Care Can Reduce Disparities at Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
5-14-09
Patient-centered approaches to reducing racial and ethnic disparities are promising, yet few organizations know how to create, implement, and evaluate them. During a workshop presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, Dr. Marshall Chin moderated a discussion among researchers currently evaluating promising interventions as part of the Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change program. Drs. Hayden Bosworth (Duke University Medical Center), Tom Houston (University of Alabama, Birmingham), Barbara Turner (University of Pennsylvania) and Quyen Ngo-Metzger (University of California, Irvine) talked about their innovative patient-centered interventions to reduce healthcare disparities. These interventions include narrative communication, tailored decision support, peer navigation, and coached care.
Two other abstracts from Finding Answers evaluation projects were selected for presentation at the SGIM conference. Dr. Thomas Sequist from Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates presented on the efficacy of cultural competency training for physicians and its impact on disparities. Dr. Tom Houston from the University of Alabama, Birmingham discussed an intervention, currently being tested at Cooper Green Hospital, which uses the power of storytelling to improve hypertension outcomes.
Abstracts from the meeting can be found in the April 2009 Supplement to Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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