On Finance: Cost, complexity of imaging play into patient safety issues, quality improvement

Healthcare researchers say it’s critical to get more women, Black and Latino participants in clinical trials. It can be done, but researchers and institutions must make the effort.

Several researchers point out that women face higher stress due to family duties, gender roles and social determinants. They say it’s an area worthy of more attention in research.

Improving patient monitoring through care-at-home services could help reduce maternal mortality, they say.

More needs to be done to give healthcare access to low-income women.