The associations of clinicians' implicit attitudes about race with medical visit communication and patient ratings of interpersonal care

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 979-987

  Cooper, Lisa A ^a   Roter, Debra L ^b   Carson, Kathryn A ^b   Beach, Mary Catherine ^a   Sabin, Janice A ^c   Greenwald, Anthony G ^c   Inui, Thomas S ^d  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RACE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREJUDICE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84861936365     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300558     Document Type: Article

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