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Table 1.

Key lessons for Designing EQIPs

Lesson	Explanation	Reference
Incentivize and encourage health equity processes.	Pay for equity encourages discovery where organizations should be rewarded for providing good care for all. Successful practices can be used to develop transferable frameworks that can be appropriately incentivized.	⁵^,⁶^,⁷^,⁸^,⁹
Develop and share tools to track equity	Develop tools to track outcomes in real-time that can be used to create health equity reports that can unmask previously hidden inequalities between groups. Then publish and open-source these tools.	¹⁰^,¹¹^,¹²^,¹³^,¹⁴^,¹⁵^,¹⁶
Engage Systematic Equality improvement	Few disparities can be expected to be abolished in one cycle; therefore, tools must form part of a broader framework that detect disparities and points to corresponding interventions to reduce disparity.	¹⁷^,¹⁸^,¹⁹^,²⁰^,²¹^,²²^,²³
Encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration	Cross-disciplinary projects are more likely to yield understanding of the complex causes of inequity and different teams are well-positioned to generate an appropriate interventions.	²⁴^,²⁵^,²⁶^,²⁷
Outreach/educating patients	Successful EQIPs used outreach techniques to engage minorities and provide information on their available care.	²⁸^,²⁹^,³⁰^,³¹^,³²^,³³
Educate staff/provide clear information on disparities	Provide education on disparities that exist and how biases may manifest. Then provide clear information on the disparities within a local context in real-time.	³⁴^,³⁵^,³⁶^,³⁷^,³⁸^,³⁹^,⁴⁰
Consider how diversity may affect presentation, treatment, and follow up.	Different groups have varying risk factors, and care delivery should aim to recognize how patients may differ in environment, circumstances, and lifestyle and use these insights to maximize their outcomes.	⁴¹^,⁴²^,⁴³^,⁴⁴

EQIPs: Equality Improvement Projects