Physician-patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns.
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SUBMITTER: Greenwood BN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7474610 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
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Physician-patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns.
Greenwood Brad N BN Hardeman Rachel R RR Huang Laura L Sojourner Aaron A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200817 35
Recent work has emphasized the benefits of patient-physician concordance on clinical care outcomes for underrepresented minorities, arguing it can ameliorate outgroup biases, boost communication, and increase trust. We explore concordance in a setting where racial disparities are particularly severe: childbirth. In the United States, Black newborns die at three times the rate of White newborns. Results examining 1.8 million hospital births in the state of Florida between 1992 and 2015 suggest th ...[more]
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