Health system program improves equity in allocation of scarce medication, but reveals needed improvements

A program designed to ensure fairness and that people living in the most disadvantaged U.S. neighborhoods would be offered a scarce, potentially life-saving medication proved feasible in a large health system. The approach can improve equity in receipt of the drug by people disproportionately affected by disease, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Health Forum by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC scientist-clinicians.