Hospital Equity Rating Metrics-Promise, Pitfalls, and Perils

Sherita Hill Golden; Neil R Powe

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.3188

Hospital Equity Rating Metrics-Promise, Pitfalls, and Perils

JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Oct 6;4(10):e233188. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.3188.

Authors

Sherita Hill Golden^{1

2

3}, Neil R Powe^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, California.

PMID: 37831459
DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.3188

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint addresses several considerations regarding equity metrics across hospital regulatory and accrediting organizations and suggestions for improvement.

MeSH terms

Benchmarking*
Hospitals*