In a recent report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines a health service disparity between population groups to be the difference in treatment or access not justified by the differences in health status or preferences of the groups. This paper proposes an implementation of this definition...

Describes design and implementation issues for this nationally representative telephone survey of nonfederal patient care physicians, which is designed to document changes they are experiencing in the health care system and learn how these changes are affecting them, their practices, and the way...