CardioExchange Archive

May 1st, 2015

The Baltimore Protests: A Call for Physicians to Become Mentors

Paul S. Chan, MD, MS

Paul Chan discusses how the Baltimore riots should call physicians to action.

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April 29th, 2015

Fallout from the Baltimore Protests: QCOR 2015 Canceled

Brahmajee Kartik Nallamothu, MD, MPH

Brahmajee Nallamothu, the chair of the 2015 Quality of Care and Outcomes Research meeting, reflects on its cancelation.

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August 13th, 2014

With Health Disparities Research, Descriptive Analysis Isn’t Enough

Paul S. Chan, MD, MS

Paul Chan takes a critical look at the shortcomings of the current state of disparities research and asks what we could do differently to improve the lives of others.

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January 9th, 2014

Hospital Quality Helps Explain Some Racial Disparities in CABG Outcomes

Larry Husten, PHD

It has long been known that racial disparities exist in health care. A large body of research has found that nonwhite patients have worse outcomes than whites. But it has been difficult to understand the underlying reasons for these disparities.  Now a new study offers evidence that, at least in the case of bypass surgery, […]

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September 18th, 2013

Both Overuse and Underuse Explain Disparities in Coronary Revascularization

Larry Husten, PHD

A new study finds that groups who have often been found to receive less medical care — non-whites, women, and people without private insurance or who are from urban and rural areas — are less likely to undergo coronary revascularization. But the same study finds that this disparity may be in no small part due to […]

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