Systemic Bias in Health Care
In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism
Compared with whites, members of racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to receive preventive health services and ofen receive lower-quality care. They also have worse health outcomes for certain conditions. To combat these disparities, advocates say health care professionals must explicitly acknowledge that race and racism factor into health care.
Download Articlehttps://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/2018/sep/focus-reducing-racial-disparities-health-care-confronting
Systemic Bias in Health Care
Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review
The evidence indicates that healthcare professionals exhibit the same levels of implicit bias as the wider population. The interactions between multiple patient characteristics and between healthcare professional and patient characteristics reveal the complexity of the phenomenon of implicit bias and its influence on clinician-patient interaction.
Download ArticleBMC Medical Ethics (2017) 18:19
Implicit Bias
Implicit Bias in Health Care
In this update written on the 15th anniversary of the IOM's report, Unequal Treatment, the Joint Commission gives a present state assessment of bias in medical care. Key concepts include implicit or unconscious bias bias and health outcomes. Steps to assess clinical environments for bias and ways to reduce it are outlined.
Download ArticleThe Joint Commission, Division of Health Care Improvement, April, 2016.
Implicit Bias
Unequal Treatment
"How could bias, prejudice, and stereotyping contribute to unequal treatment, particularly given that healthcare providers are sworn to beneficence and cannot, by law, discriminate against any patient on the basis of race, ethnicity, color or national origin? This brief summary of the IOM Unequal Treatment report addresses this question and summarizes other relevant findings..."
Download ArticleUnequal Treatment: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Summary, Institute of Medicine,2002. Full Text at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10260