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Addressing Health-Related Inequities

There is an urgent need to address healthcare inequities in communities of color across the United States by providing education and sharing best practices at the root of systemic racism.

Most clinicians believe that health care disparities are related more to the systems of care than their own decisions on when and how to provide that care. Understanding and eliminating unconscious bias are paramount to improving patient care. As a CME provider, CME Outfitters has a responsibility to tackle this issue and be a guiding force for health care professionals (HCPs) around the globe.

This hub serves as a framework for addressing not only the barriers to equitable health care access, medications, and follow-up but also the stigma that creates inequity and impedes care for underserved patients. The educational activities and resources in this hub are designed to shed light on this matter, help HCPs recognize these issues, and empower them with tools to use in their clinical practice.

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Pain Management: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

Quality of life (QoL) depends greatly on adequate pain management. Without sufficient care, patients dealing with chronic pain suffer in every station of their lives, ranging from personal to professional.

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PrEP Inequities

In this CME Outfitters Snack, a diverse panel of expert faculty will discuss PrEP options, PrEP guidelines, implicit bias in underserved communities, tools for measuring bias, clinical approaches to PrEP conversations, and strategies for individualizing PrEP care to facilitate equitable access in clinical practice and public health.

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Disparities in Behavioral Health: Addressing Barriers and Improving Patient Outcomes

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will engage in a candid discussion around the impact of racism, bias, and stigma in the behavioral health setting. By further analyzing these barriers to equitable patient care, faculty and learners will develop strategies to integrate respectful and empathetic care to all patients.

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Actionable Strategies for the Behavioral Health Team in Inclusive Patient Management and Respectful Care

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will open a discussion around the dynamic and evolving topics of racism, bias, discrimination, and cultural humility that will illustrate strategies and actionable steps for members of a behavioral health team to achieve inclusive patient management and equitable care, including removing barriers, making accommodations, and delivering informed and sensitive care.

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Disparities in Cancer Screenings: Addressing Race and Gender in Patient Care to Improve Outcomes

Front-line providers can improve identification, screening, and referral to address racism and disparities in cancer care. In this CME Outfitters presentation, expert faculty will discuss the impact of racial/ethnic and gender-based racism and discrimination on routine cancer screenings in addition to providing actionable strategies healthcare providers (HCPs) integrate into practice to improve disparities in cancer screenings for racial/ethnic groups, women, transgender patients, and non-binary individuals.

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Actionable Strategies in Your Role as a Pharmacist in Inclusive Patient Management and Respectful Care

In this CME Outfitters Snack series, expert faculty will open a discussion around the dynamic and evolving topics of bias and cultural humility that will illustrate strategies and actionable steps for pharmacists to improve inclusive patient management, cultural humility, and delivering equitable care. Faculty will discuss strategies including removing barriers, making accommodations, and delivering informed, respectful, and sensitive care.

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Actionable Strategies in Your Role as a Nurse in Providing Inclusive and Respectful Care for All Patients

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will open a discussion around the dynamic, evolving topics of bias and cultural humility and will review strategies and actionable steps for nurses to achieve inclusive and equitable patient management, including how to model respectful care.

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Engaging Hearts and Minds: Pathways to Equitable Cardiovascular Care

In this CME Outfitters Snack, Drs. Utibe Essien and Monica Peek engage in a frank and candid discussion on the real-world impact of racism and disparities on cardiovascular care.  In addition to identifying the problems, they offer sound advice and pathways for improvement, including how to invite shared decision making with patients, how to inquire about social determinants of health, and how to move from “awareness” of disparities in cardiovascular care, to “implementation” of strategies to improve the situation.

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Actionable Strategies in Your Role as a Physician in Inclusive Patient Management and Respectful Care

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will open a discussion around the dynamic and evolving topics of systemic racism, bias, and cultural humility that will illustrate strategies and actionable steps for physicians to achieve inclusive patient management and equitable care, including addressing racism, discrimination, barriers to care, and social determinants of health as well as delivering sensitive and respectful care to all patients.

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Disparities in Women’s Health Across the Lifespan: Actionable Strategies to Improve Patient Outcomes

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty Drs. Melissa Simon and Monica Peek will engage learners in a discussion designed to help them identify the impact of racism and inequities on the health of patients as well as integrate inclusive, patient-centric strategies to address racism and disparities in the reproductive health care of women and non-binary/trans individuals.

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Educating Frontline Clinicians to Reduce Missed Opportunities for HBV Screening

In this recorded CME Outfitters webcast, expert faculty focus on universal HBV screening with triple panel testing to accurately identify patients with active HBV infection.

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Health Inequities in Mental Health Care

In this CME Outfitters podcast episode, expert faculty will discuss cultural and systemic challenges faced by ethnic/racially diverse patients, and empower health care professionals with education, tools, and resources to address these challenges and provide more equitable mental health care for all.

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Gastroenterology Care: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

In this CME Outfitters BriefCase, Drs. Peek and Quezada will guide learners through a patient case scenario reflective of the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that exist in racial and ethnic underserved patients with IBD.

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Vaccines: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

This CMEO BriefCase will discuss the health care challenges of a racially diverse young mother and her 2-year-old child, and how to encourage vaccinations as preventative measures for both.

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Mental Health Care: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

This CMEO BriefCase will discuss the mental health care challenges of a 28-year-old Black male, with a history of schizophrenia and previous failed attempts at treatment.

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Health Inequities in Obesity Care

In this installment of the popular CMEO podcast series on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Drs. Peek, Stanford, and Noble discuss the influence of implicit bias, health disparities, and health inequities on the quality of care for patients with obesity.

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Cardiology: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

Expert faculty follows the journey of a 48-year-old Black female with AF to illuminate disparities in the quality of care she is offered. Frank questions and candid discussions about the impact of implicit bias, social determinants of health, shared decision making, and health literacy provide actionable and individualized strategies to improve outcomes for all patients with AF.

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Addressing Bias and Disparities in the Care of Patients with Cancer: A Call-to-Action

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will guide learners through a thorough review of current data underscoring the existence of racial and ethnic disparities within cancer care.

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Addressing Bias and Disparities in the Care of Pregnant and Postpartum People: A Call-to-Action

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will guide viewers through a thorough review of current data underscoring the existence of racial and ethnic disparities within maternal care, as well as how social determinants of health and systemic racism contribute to these health disparities.

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​​Addressing Bias and Disparities in the Care of Patients with HIV: A Call-to-Action

In this CME Outfitters Snack, expert faculty will guide viewers through a review of current data underscoring the existence of racial and ethnic disparities within HIV prevention and care.

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Obesity Care: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

In this CME Outfitters BriefCase, we will follow Maria, a 52-year-old Latina woman who has been diagnosed with obesity and type 2 diabetes, as she navigates the healthcare system seeking respectful and holistic medical care.

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Health Inequities in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care

In this podcast installment of a multi-prong diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) series, Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MSc; Sophie Balzora, MD, FACG; and Nana Bernasko, CRNP, DNP, WHNP-BC, will discuss strategies vital to combating inequities in IBD.

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The Patient Journey: Eliminating Disparities at Every Step

In this CME Outfitters webcast, expert faculty will discuss unconscious bias, racial and ethnic disparities, and health inequities and lay the foundation to implement real-world strategies and actionable steps for health care professionals (HCPs) and non-HCPs, including office, administrative, and support staff.

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Health Inequities in Prostate Cancer

In this CME Outfitters podcast, expert faculty will review recent data and discuss the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of oncology care for racial and ethnic underserved patients with prostate cancer. This program will set the stage for intervention, empowering attendees to recognize and consider factors to improve prostate cancer treatment.

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Health Inequities in Vision Care

In this podcast installment of a multi-prong diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) series, Drs. Peek, Ramsey, and Shoge will discuss strategies vital to combating inequities in vision care.

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Joint Health Care: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

In this CME Outfitters BriefCase, expert faculty guide learners through a patient case scenario reflective of the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of joint health care for racial and ethnic underserved patients.

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Real-world Tactics to Address Health Inequities in Prostate Cancer Care

Join a faculty expert as they guide learners through a patient case scenario reflecting the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of care for patients with prostate cancer. This program will provide actionable strategies, empowering attendees to recognize factors and implement changes in practice to improve prostate cancer treatment.

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Health Inequities in Vaccination Optimization

In this CMEO podcast, expert faculty will present the challenges to equitable vaccination rates for all patients, for a variety of vaccinations, and discuss how best to learn from previous attempts to ensure current and future vaccination can occur for all patients.

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Real-world Tactics to Address Health Inequities in Multiple Myeloma Care

In this CME Outfitters BriefCase, faculty experts will guide learners through a patient case scenario reflecting the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of oncology care for racial and ethnic underserved patients with multiple myeloma.

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Vision Care: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

The impact of disparities in vision care is widespread—from lower test scores in school children to macular degeneration in the aging population. Gaps in early diagnosis, treatment options and access, preservation of eyesight, and more, remain for racial and ethnic underserved populations. A culmination of biases, disparities, and inequities continues a cycle of inadequate optometric and ophthalmological care, thus resulting in delayed diagnosis and suboptimal clinical management and prognosis.

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Health Inequities in Joint Health Care

In this podcast installment of a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) series, expert faculty discuss strategies vital to combating biases and inequities in joint health care.

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Health Inequities in Lung Cancer

Join Drs. Ana I. Velázquez Mañana and Gilberto de Lima Lopes, Jr. as they review recent data and discuss the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of oncology care for underserved racial and ethnic underserved patients with lung cancer.

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Health Inequities in Multiple Myeloma

In this CME Outfitters podcast, expert faculty will review recent data and discuss the sweeping impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of oncology care for racial and ethnic underserved patients with multiple myeloma.

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Maternal Health Care: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities

In this CME Outfitters BriefCase, we will follow Macy, a 30-year-old Black woman, through the highs and lows of her pregnancy and postpartum journey.

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Real-world Tactics to Address Health Inequities in Lung Cancer Care

In this CMEO BriefCase, a faculty expert will guide learners through a patient case scenario reflecting the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of oncology care for racial and ethnic underserved patients with lung cancer.

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Real-world Tactics to Address Health Inequities in Melanoma Care

Join a faculty expert as they guide learners through a patient case scenario reflective of the impact of biases, disparities, and health inequities that reduce the quality of oncology care for racial and ethnic underserved patients with melanoma.

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Health Inequities in Oncology Care

In this CME Outfitters webcast, expert faculty discuss the impact of unconscious and systemic biases, SDoH, and regional, racial, and ethnic disparities and provide tools and resources to improve oncology care for all patients.

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A Hot Potato in Health Care: Whose Responsibility is it to Advocate for Cancer Screenings for SGM Patients?

In this CMEO BriefCase, faculty will use case-based learning to connect gendered and heterosexual presumptive care settings to health inequities and poor outcomes for SGM patients, and then, provide examples of how to create welcoming, inclusive environments and practice cultural humility with patients.

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Achieving Equity in the Management of Chronic Pain: Treating the Whole Patient

This CME Outfitters BriefCase activity will present three case studies focusing on African American and minority patients and the struggles they face in seeking care for acute or chronic pain, with the goals of illustrating pain care disparities and guiding clinicians to recognize biases and social determinants of health in patients suffering from pain.

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Addressing Maternal Health Disparities: Changes You Can Make to Your Practice

In this CMEO BriefCase, faculty will use case-based learning to connect healthcare disparities, stereotyping, implicit bias, and racism to poor outcomes in maternal health in minority populations.

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Racial Disparities in Melanoma Care: Steps to Improve Care

This live CMEO Briefcase will focus on three patients from racial and ethnic minority populations with melanoma and outline best practices for screening to reduce disparities and improve melanoma.

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Racial Disparities in Melanoma Care: Steps to Improve Care

This live CMEO Briefcase will focus on three patients from racial and ethnic minority populations with melanoma and outline best practices for screening to reduce disparities and improve melanoma morbidity and mortality rates in patients of color.

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Equity and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Leaders in Addressing the Crisis

This CMEOCast podcast will focus on the role of health systems in addressing structural racism and clinician/staff biases and how health systems administrators can integrate best practices to support patients and reduce disparities in care.

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Inequitable Access and Outcomes: Health Care Disparities in Surgical Weight-Loss Procedures

This CMEOCast podcast will focus on the negative impact of inequitable access on surgical weight-loss procedures, including the key contributing factors for disparities in weight-loss surgery and strategies for mitigating these disparities.

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Addressing Racial Disparities in Orthopedic Care

This CMEO BriefCase episode will focus on factors for disparities in joint arthroplasty procedures and strategies clinicians can implement to improve racial equity in orthopedic arthroplasty and surgical care.

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Racial Disparities in Cardiac Arrythmia Care: A Call to Action

In this CME Outfitters BriefCase, expert faculty will present two to three patient cases that will showcase how clinicians can integrate best practices to mitigate disparities in the management of cardiac rhythm disorders across race, ethnicity, and gender.

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Call to Action: Healing Racial Disparities in Dermatological Health

In this CMEOCast podcast episode, expert faculty will discuss how clinicians can improve awareness of racial disparities in melanoma outcomes; recognize, address, and monitor their own biases when managing dermatological conditions in SoC; and integrate best practices that account for structural racism and barriers in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of melanoma and other dermatological conditions in people of color.

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Promoting Equitable Oral Health in Patients of Color

This CME Outfitters BriefCase will feature patient case studies that illustrate disparities in oral health and practical steps dental health professionals can take to mitigate these in their own practice to eliminate barriers to equitable dental and oral health care in patients of color.

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Parameters of Pain Care: Mitigating Racial Disparities in Patients with Chronic Pain

This CMEOCast episode will highlight the root causes of health disparities in pain care and identify best practices for addressing structural and interpersonal racism that cause inequitable pain management, to improve awareness of and address clinician biases in pain care for patients from racial minority backgrounds.

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Irregular Care: Racial Inequities in the Management of Cardiac Rhythm Disorders

This CME Outfitters podcast will focus on identifying inequitable processes and pathways in the prevalence, screening, diagnosis, and management of CVD/arrythmia disorders in URM populations; how HCPs can develop solutions to recognize and address biases; and how to integrate best practices and guidelines to account for structural racism and barriers in the prevention, care, and management of medically underserved patients with CVD.

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Proceedings of the Forum: Addressing Unconscious Bias and Disparities in Health Care: A Call to Action

This CME Outfitters Newsletter article focuses on historical and present-day sources of health care disparities as discussed in a trail-blazing, two-day, round-table seminar. The discussion included the effects that disparate health and health care have on vulnerable minority populations, and specific strategies to mitigate structural and interpersonal racism to counter these disparities and promote best practices for equitable patient treatment and outcomes.

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Call to Action: Racial Disparities in Maternal Health

This CME Outfitters podcast will focus on helping clinicians identify factors that contribute to racial disparities in maternal health outcomes and then outline steps for implementing effective and timely clinical interventions to eliminate preventable maternal morbidity and mortality.

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Call to Action for Health Equity: Racial Disparities in the Care of Patients with Cardiometabolic Disease

This CME Outfitters Live and OnDemand will focus on identifying structural and social determinants of health (SDOH) and clinician biases that place minority patients at risk for poorer outcomes in cardiovascular disease and implementing health care practices to improve these outcomes.

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Differentiating Psoriasis in Skin of Color

The first of this four-episode BriefCase learning series includes a video clinical encounter on differentiating PsO in people with skin of color, based on notable differences in disease presentation.

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Ask Before Dispensing: Risk Assessment and Counseling of Patients Prescribed Opioids

This CME Outfitters BriefCase will replicate a real-world patient case scenario and use interactive technology focused on proper risk assessment, and strategies for counseling patients about their pain and utilizing nonopioid pain management.

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Keeping Patients Safe: Educating About Safe Disposal of Opioids to Prevent Diversion

The final installment in this CME Outfitters BriefCase series highlights a patient case study that focuses on keeping patients safe by educating them on the proper storage and disposal of opioids.

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Partnering with Patients: Counseling Patients About Non-Opioid Pain Options

The second installment of this CME Outfitters BriefCase series on addressing the opioid epidemic in our communities focuses on educating patients about their pain and about nonopioid pain management.

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A Health Care Professional’s Guide to Understanding Pronouns

Learn more about common pronouns, the impact of making assumptions, pronouns in the workplace, and more, in this free PDF guide
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Tools to Assess Food Insecurity in Patients

Whether a condition of post-pandemic inflation, crop failures due to extreme weather changes, or the result of urban food deserts, we need ways to start that conversation in a compassionate way.
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A Health Care Professional’s Guide to Implementing Gender-Neutral Terminology

Learn more about the intersections of gender, language, inclusivity, and health equity, as well as suggested language swaps in this helpful guide.
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