PatientEngagementHIT (4/6, Heath) reports 10% of “Black patients reported feeling discrimination during a healthcare encounter, a rate that is three times that of White people and twice that of Hispanic people,” according to a report published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute. PatientEngagementHIT adds, “Of the Black non-elderly adults who reported institutional racism or implicit bias during a medical encounter, 13.1 percent were women and 14.6 percent were low-income, the data furthered.”
Related Links:
— “10% of Black Patients Report Implicit Bias in Medicine “Sara Heath, PatientEngagementHIT, April 6, 2021