Health Affairs January 19, 2022
There has been ample evidence of unequal treatment by race in the US health care system. However, little is known about how racism and bias may be communicated by health providers in the electronic health record (EHR). A new study, released ahead of print by Health Affairs, examines medical providers’ use of negative patient descriptors in EHRs and investigates whether the use of these terms varied by patient race and ethnicity. According to the study, Black patients had 2.54 times the adjusted odds of having one or more negative descriptors in the EHR compared with White patients. In addition, patients with government insurance and unmarried patients were found to have higher adjusted odds of negative descriptors compared with patients who...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor