Does racial bias influence psychiatric diagnoses assigned at first hospitalization?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 463-472

  Sohler, Nancy L ^a   Bromet, Evelyn J ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Diagnosis; Psychosis; Race; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEGRO; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FOLLOW UP; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREJUDICE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0042830996     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0653-0     Document Type: Article

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