RT Journal
A1 Dowd M
T1 Disparities in health care: Lack of equity arising from overuse (and vice versa)
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2012
FD August 1
VO 166
IS 8
SP 770
OP 772
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1039
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1039
AB 
Equity, 1 of the 6 dimensions of health care quality identified by the Institute of Medicine, is defined as providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as sex, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. Along with equity, the additional dimensions of safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, efficiency, and timeliness constitute a set of aims for health care improvement set forth in the 2001 Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.1