Unconscious Race and Social Class Bias Among Acute Care Surgical Clinicians and Clinical Treatment Decisions
Haider A, Schneider E, Sriram N, Dossick D, Scott V, Swoboda S, Losonczy L, Haut E, Efron D, Pronovost P, Lipsett P, Cornwell E, MacKenzie E, Cooper L, Freischlag J. Unconscious Race and Social Class Bias Among Acute Care Surgical Clinicians and Clinical Treatment Decisions. JAMA Surgery 2015, 150: 457-464. PMID: 25786199, DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.4038.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical decisionMultivariable analysisUnconscious raceSurgical cliniciansSignificant health inequitiesLogistic regression analysisClinical treatment decisionsPatient care decisionsPatient management decisionsD scorePhysician-patient interactionDisadvantaged patientsPatient raceUnivariate analysisClinical assessmentCritical careTreatment decisionsMAIN OUTCOMELevel ISocial class biasWeb-based surveyClinician's roleHealth inequitiesCliniciansEmergency medicine