Can patient-centered attitudes reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care?

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作者
Beach, Mary Catherine
Rosner, Mary
Cooper, Lisa A.
Duggan, Patrick S.
Shatzer, John
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[1] Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Med, Div Gen Internal Med, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
[2] Johns Hopkins Univ, Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Behav & Soc, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
[3] Johns Hopkins Univ, Berman Inst Bioeth, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
[4] Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Med, Clin Educ Ctr, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
[5] Vanderbilt Univ, Sch Med, Off Teaching & Learning Med, Nashville, TN 37212 USA
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10.1097/ACM.0b013e31802d94b2
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G40 [教育学];
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040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Purpose Patient-centeredness has been advocated to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in health care quality, but no empirical data support such a connection. The authors' purpose was to determine whether students with patient-centered attitudes have better performance and are less likely to demonstrate disparities with African American compared with white standardized patients (SPs). Method Third-year medical students were assessed by SPs at the Clinical Educational Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2002. One African American and one white actor were trained as SPs for each of four case scenarios; students were randomly assigned to interact with either SP for each case. Before the exam, students were surveyed about their attitudes towards patient-centered medicine. Students with and without patient-centered attitudes were compared with regard to their performance with African American and white SPs. Outcome measures were student exam scores in interpersonal skill, history taking, physical exam, and counseling. Results All 177 of eligible students participated in all four case scenarios. With white SPs, students with patient-centered attitudes performed similarly to students without patient-centered attitudes in all four areas. However, with African American SPs, students with patient-centered attitudes performed significantly better than students without patient-centered attitudes in interpersonal skills (71.4 versus 69.4, P =.010), history taking (63.8 versus 6 1. 1, P =.003), and counseling (92.1 versus 88.7, P =.002) and not significantly different in physical exam performance (73.6 versus 68.6, P =.311). Conclusions Patient-centered attitudes may be more important in improving physician behaviors with African American patients than with white patients and may, therefore, play a role in reducing disparities.
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