A study of national physician organizations' efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To characterize national physician organizations' efforts to reduce health disparities and identify organizational characteristics associated with such efforts.

Method

This cross-sectional study was conducted between September 2009 and June 2010. The authors used two-sample t tests and chi-square tests to compare the proportion of organizations with disparity-reducing activities between different organizational types (e.g., primary care versus subspecialty organizations, small [<1,000 members] versus large [>5,000 members]). Inclusion criteria required physician organizations to be (1) focused on physicians, (2) national in scope, and (3) membership based.

Results

The number of activities per organization ranged from 0 to 22. Approximately half (53%) of organi

SUBMITTER: Peek ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3785372 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature