Advancing Healthcare Equity Monitoring and Progress: A Framework to Assess Measures for Sensitivity to Inequities

Equitable healthcare is needed to improve population health outcomes. However, a lack of comprehensive analytical tools and data impedes efforts to monitor and improve equity in care. Measures often do not include stratified statistics, providing insufficient information about variations in access, quality or outcomes across population subgroups. Measures that are equity-sensitive leverage disaggregated data to detect differences in care among population groups and across institutions, serving as one mechanism toward identifying and tracking healthcare inequities across the care continuum. This report presents a framework to assess measures for equity sensitivity that may be used across diverse settings.