The Impact of Cognitive Stressors in the Emergency Department on Physician Implicit Racial Bias

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 297-305

  Johnson, Tiffani J ^a,b   Hickey, Robert W ^b   Switzer, Galen E ^b,d   Miller, Elizabeth ^b   Winger, Daniel G ^b   Nguyen, Margaret ^c   Saladino, Richard A ^b   Hausmann, Leslie R M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BUSYNESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE STRESS; CROWDING (AREA); DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS; MALE; NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OVERCROWDING SCALE; NUMBER OF PATIENT; NUMBER OF SHIFT; PEDIATRIC WARD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTSHIFT BIAS; PRESHIFT BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROWHITE ANTIBLACK BIAS; RACE IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; RACISM; RESIDENT; SELF REPORT; STRESS; STRESSFULNESS; WORK; ANCESTRY GROUP; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MEDICINE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; COGNITION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE; PHYSICIANS; RACISM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84960443857     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12901     Document Type: Article

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