Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 30, 2019 16:06:36 GMT 12
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT DOCTORS CALL FOR ETHNICITY-SPECIFIC AUDITS OF HEALTH OUTCOMES
Emergency department doctors are calling for health outcomes to be measured based on ethnicity.
The health system was "never designed to include Māori", yet there are no completed studies into how emergency departments are failing them, Middlemore Hospital emergency department doctor Inia Tomas says.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM)'s co-chair of its Manaaki Mana Māori health equity strategy was unaware of any hospitals with ethnicity-specific key performance indicators, like the time before a patient is given medication for severe pain.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/116809595/emergency-department-doctors-call-for-ethnicityspecific-audits-of-health-outcomes
Emergency department doctors are calling for health outcomes to be measured based on ethnicity.
The health system was "never designed to include Māori", yet there are no completed studies into how emergency departments are failing them, Middlemore Hospital emergency department doctor Inia Tomas says.
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM)'s co-chair of its Manaaki Mana Māori health equity strategy was unaware of any hospitals with ethnicity-specific key performance indicators, like the time before a patient is given medication for severe pain.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/116809595/emergency-department-doctors-call-for-ethnicityspecific-audits-of-health-outcomes