title: Ending LGBT invisibility in health care: the first step in ensuring equitable care.
abstract: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals experience health care disparities that will be eliminated only if clinicians elicit information about sexual orientation and gender identity from their patients through thoughtful, nonjudgmental discussion and history-taking.
authors: Fenway Community Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. harvey_makadon@hms.harvard.edu
authors: Harvey J
authors: HJ
authors: Makadon
mesh_terms: D001727:Bisexuality; D005260:Female; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000941:ethics; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D014189:Transsexualism