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CHERP Accepting Proposals for Pilot Projects, The Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, an HSR&D Center of Excellence, invites applications for our competitive pilot research program. The deadline for submission is Tuesday, September 2nd 2008. more... Socioeconomic Disparities: Researchers Find Recent Evidence of a Growing Mortality Gap, Researchers with the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control looked at mortality data from 1993-2001. They found a rapid rise in socioeconomic inequalities over time. They attribute the widening gap to improvements in mortality among educated white and black men and white women, and slow or no growth and in some cases a worsening of mortality rates among the least educated. more... AHRQ 2007 Disparities Report Available Online, Three themes emerge from the 2007 report. First, significant disparities in health care quality and access persist. Second, although some headway has occurred, the biggest gaps in quality and access remain large. Finally, uninsurance is a major obstacle to reducing health care disparities. more... |
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CHERP Investigator Elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, CHERP Investigator and Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School, was one of 61 researchers elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2008. more... CHERP Investigator Receives Young Investigator Award for Contributions to Health Services Research, Rachel Werner MD, PhD received the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) at the organization’s 2008 annual meeting in early June. The Thompson Prize recognizes faculty from member programs whose work contributes to knowledge in health services based on their research publications in the field. The Prize is in honor of John D. Thompson, a professor of health administration education who set exemplary standards for teaching, commitment to learning, collegial relationships, and health services research. more...
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Is Thirty-Day Hospital Mortality Really Lower for Black Veterans Compared with White Veterans?, Black patients older than 65 admitted to Veterans hospitals for certain conditions have better 30-day mortality rates than their white counterparts. Building on research that demonstrated a lower risk-adjusted mortality for black compared to white veterans, Volpp and colleagues examined VA 30-day mortality data for 406,550 patients hospitalized from 1996 to 2002 with six common conditions (congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), hip fracture and stroke) to evaluate potential sources of these mortality differences. Although the overall the mortality rate for blacks was better, they found that most of the benefit for black veterans was attributable to veterans over the age of 65; for those under age 65 the results were mixed. Volpp and colleagues found that differences in mortality between white and black veterans were consistent across the 8 years studied. These differences persisted after statistical adjustment for VA hospital site of treatment and differences in co morbid conditions. Potential variation in threshold for hospitalization for pneumonia, congestive heart failure and GI bleed and potential undercounting of within VA mortality data were accounted for in the study design. more...
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