Do patients choose physicians of their own race? To provide the kind of care consumers want, medical schools might be able to justify using race as an admissions criterion.

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作者
Saha, S [1 ]
Taggart, SH
Komaromy, M
Bindman, AB
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[1] Portland VA Med Ctr, Portland, OR USA
[2] Oregon Hlth & Sci Univ, Portland, OR 97201 USA
[3] Univ Washington, Ctr Reinventing Publ Educ, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[4] Univ Calif San Francisco, Primary Care Res Ctr, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[5] San Francisco Gen Hosp, Div Gen Internal Med, San Francisco, CA USA
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10.1377/hlthaff.19.4.76
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R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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This study seeks to determine whether minority America ns tend to see physicians of their own race as a matter of choice or simply because minority physicians are more conveniently located within predominantly minority communities. Using data from the Commonwealth Fund 1994 National Comparative Survey of Minority Health Care, we found that black and Hispanic Americans sought care from physicians of their own race because of personal preference and language, not solely because of geographic accessibility. As minority populations continue to grow, the demand for minority physicians is likely to increase. Keeping up with this demand will require medical school admissions policies and physician workforce planning to include explicit strategies to increase the supply of underrepresented minority physicians.
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