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December 04, 2006 Volume 15 No. 23

Expecting Success
Collecting Data on Race and Ethnicity To Reduce Health Care Disparities

Trust Duke University Hospital (DUH) to get to the heart of the matter.

After almost a year of preparation and with a lot of help throughout hospital departments, the Patient Resource Management Organization (PRMO) has embarked on an ambitious effort to collect data that could contribute to improved health care for African-Americans and Latinos.

The data collection is a key ingredient to “Expecting Success,” a 29-monthlong...

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