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ArticleTrauma surgery & acute care open2024

Taking action to achieve health equity and eliminate healthcare disparities within acute care surgery.

Marta L McCrum, Tanya L Zakrison, Lisa Marie Knowlton, Brandon Bruns, Lillian S Kao, Kathie-Ann Joseph, Cherisse Berry

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Article in Trauma surgery & acute care open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Marta L McCrumDepartment of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2543-1635
Tanya L ZakrisonDepartment of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Lisa Marie KnowltonDepartment of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6046-5035
Brandon BrunsDepartment of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Lillian S KaoDepartment of Surgery, McGovern Medical School at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3567-8159
Kathie-Ann JosephDepartment of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Cherisse BerryDepartment of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1683-6940

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Addressing disparities is crucial for enhancing population health, ensuring health security, and fostering resilient health systems. Disparities in acute care surgery (trauma, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care) have been well documented and the magnitude of inequities demand an intentional, organized, and effective response. As part of its commitment to achieve high-quality, equitable care in all aspects of acute care surgery, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma convened an expert panel at its eigty-second annual meeting in September 2023 to discuss how to take action to work towards health equity in acute care surgery practice. The panel discussion framed contemporary disparities in the context of historic and political injustices, then identified targets for interventions and potential action items in health system structure, health policy, the surgical workforce, institutional operations and quality efforts. We offer a four-pronged approach to address health inequities: identify, reduce, eliminate, and heal disparities, with the goal of building a healthcare system that achieves equity and justice for all.

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general surgeryHealthcare disparitiesMultiple Trauma

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PMID39416956
PMCPMC11481130

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