Patient-physician racial and ethnic concordance and perceived medical errors.
In this paper, I use nationally representative survey data to examine the relationship between patient-physician racial/ethnic concordance and perceived medical errors in the USA. After adjusting for potential confounding factors, we find that White patients treated by White physicians have 33% lower odds of reporting medical errors than White patients treated by non-White physicians. In contrast, patient-physician racial/ethnic concordance has no effect on perceived medical errors among non-White patients. The results suggest that the role of racial/ethnic concordance in perceptions of health care safety varies by patients' racial/ethnic background.
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University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. stepanik@gwm.sc.edu <stepanik@gwm.sc.edu>
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D003142:Communication; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044468:Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander / Q000523:psychology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012938:Social Perception; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology