Abstract
Abstract Racial and ethnic disparities in health care quality are indicative of relatively poorer quality of care for racial/ethnic minority groups. They represent critical injustices when provisions of health care are unexplained by the patient's clinical needs and other determinants of health care delivery, and the benefits of health care services are not equitably realized. While health care remains suboptimal in the United States, improvement in health care quality is observed for all population subgroups. Yet, racial and ethnic disparities in health care access and quality have not shown any significant improvement. Health care disparities have discernible patterns and different putative explanatory pathways. Extricating these patterns and pathways will help to better understand why race/ethnic disparities are observed for some measures of health care quality (e.g., invasive cardiac care), but not others (e.g., cancer screening); and why health care access and quality are suboptimal for all Americans. Evidence‐based health care quality improvement, which integrates the elimination of defined racial/ethnic disparities, is the paradigm for achieving equitable best care.
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