title: [Equality in clinical practice. Proposals for patients, professionals and managers and policies to limit discrimination].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To make feasible and practical proposals to improve equality in the course of clinical care during the patient-provider encounter.
  
  
  METHODS
  Design: A focus group study was conducted with a qualitative approach from the perspective of reducing health inequalities in the clinic. Setting: A classroom discussion focused on equality in clinical work. Subjects: 98 professionals from several countries. Measurement tools: An analysis of the responses was performed, grouped by themes interpreted by analysts, and restructured to provide consistency and uniformity to responses given. Data were collected using a questionnaire with open answers, allowing free-form answers to three general questions that addressed improving equality from the perspective of the professional themselves, patients, and health policy managers. No saturation horizon of analytical discourses was set, to understand that from this subjective prioritization of opinion there is no possibility that discourses reached saturation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Responses were added to the 3 principal axes, recommending that professionals be aware of their discriminatory ability. Patients were asked to trust their health professionals and that they should be assigned to a professional. It was also proposed that managers provide information systems, help reduce health inequalities, and encourage professional freedom.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The paper presents concrete measures to promote improved equality in clinics during the delivery of health care.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Soler-González
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Fernández de Sanmamed
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Gérvas
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D017144:Focus Groups; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006282:Health Personnel; D006291:Health Policy; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D010361:Patients; D011174:Portugal; D011287:Prejudice / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D058996:Quality Improvement; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D035502:Trust; D019472:Universal Health Insurance
keywords: Delivery of health care; Desigualdades en salud; Healthcare inequalities; Investigación cualitativa; Provisión de salud; Qualitative research