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During the past decade, hundreds of articles have been published documenting the existence of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care — a data deluge that has led many observers to suggest that it is time to stop documenting disparities and turn our efforts to doing something about them. Three articles in this issue of the Journal once again document the existence of disparities — albeit with a slightly different twist — by looking at time trends.^1,2,3 For most of the areas studied, disparities between white patients and black patients have not substantially improved during the past decade . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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