Patient-provider race-concordance: Does it matter in improving minority patients' health outcomes?

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-130

  Meghani, Salimah H ^a   Brooks, Jacqueline M ^a   Gipson Jones, Trina ^b   Waite, Roberta ^c   Whitfield Harris, Lisa ^d   Deatrick, Janet A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d National Nursing Centers Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Concordance; Disparities; Ethnicity; Health; Minorities; Outcomes; Race

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; RACE; RACIAL DISPARITY;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PATIENT PROVIDER RACE CONCORDANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RACE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MINORITY HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60749086510     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850802227031     Document Type: Article

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