The Associations of Clinicians’ Implicit Attitudes About Race With Medical Visit Communication and Patient Ratings of Interpersonal Care
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...Finally, 2 studies reported moderate amounts of implicit bias among health care professionals against darker-skinned individuals compared with lighter-skinned individuals.(29,32) IAT D scores in these studies were 0....
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...They also reported longer visits and experienced their visits with the provider as being less collaborative.(32) Another study also found an association between implicit racial bias and verbal dominance by physicians during encounters with Black patients....
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...In some studies, the attitudes of patients towards healthcare professionals were recorded and used to evaluate clinical interaction [23, 24, 44]....
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...As our review shows, there is clearer evidence for a relationship between implicit bias and negative effects on clinical interaction [23, 24, 44]....
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...Exposure to communication skills training was not associated with lower race-IAT scores for physicians [23]....
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...Implicit bias affects clinical judgement and behaviour Three studies found a significant correlation between high levels of physicians’ implicit bias against blacks on IAT scores and interaction that was negatively rated by black patients [23, 24, 44] and, in one study, also negatively rated by external observers [23]....
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...In this respect, the three studies using measures of physician-patient interaction are exemplary [22–24], in particular when using independent evaluators of the interactions [23]....
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...Providers’ implicit bias is also associated with poorer quality of patient–provider communication, including the provider’s nonverbal behavior (26)....
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...found that physicians’ implicit pro-White bias on the IAT correlated with Black patients’ perceptions of poorer communication and lower quality care.(30) Penner et al....
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...Others have confirmed that even in the absence of explicit race bias, implicit preference for Whites among physicians is common.(29,30) The degree of implicit race bias varies by physician race and gender....
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