Fig. 4

Identifying hospital performance gaps in STEEEP across assessments (a) Summary of quality measures mapped to STEEEP across assessments. No specific measures for equity were identified, but risk adjustment may have been done using equity-based variables; (b) Equity measures represent an opportunity for improvement; additional considerations for new measures in quality are suggested. The color range key represents the number of measures identified across all assessments where the darker color of blue indicates a higher frequency. While these measures for equity consideration could also be considered measures of effectiveness, we suggest that the influence of variables such as race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and geography (at a minimum) on health and healthcare delivery outcomes could be further examined here. This is an opportunity for stakeholders to evaluate relationships among various types of inequality with the hopes to identify mechanisms and possible interventions to promote health equity in their communities