Physician Racial Bias and Word Use during Racially Discordant Medical Interactions

Health Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 401-408

  Hagiwara, Nao ^a   Slatcher, Richard B ^b   Eggly, Susan ^c   Penner, Louis A ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; RACISM; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VIDEORECORDING; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RACISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84976870481     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1138389     Document Type: Article

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