An investigation of associations between clinicians' ethnic or racial bias and hypertension treatment, medication adherence and blood pressure control

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 987-995

  Blair, Irene V ^a   Steiner, John F ^b   Hanratty, Rebecca ^c   Price, David W ^b   Fairclough, Diane L ^d   Daugherty, Stacie L ^d   Bronsert, Michael ^d   Magid, David J ^b   Havranek, Edward P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Kaiser Permanente Colorado   (United States)

^c DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

discrimination; healthcare disparities; hypertension; implicit bias; quality; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; COLORADO; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84903904948     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2795-z     Document Type: Article

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