Can patient-centered attitudes reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-198

  Beach, Mary Catherine ^a,b,c   Rosner, Mary ^a   Cooper, Lisa A ^a,b   Duggan, Patrick S ^c   Shatzer, John ^d,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Office of Teaching and Learning in Medicine

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; SKILL; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

EID: 33846661909     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31802d94b2     Document Type: Article

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