Investigating the influence of African American and African Caribbean race on primary care doctors' decision making about depression
- Submitting institution
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Aston University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 23236046
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.004
- Title of journal
- Social science and medicine
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 161
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- -
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 2 - Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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A - Aston Institute of Urban Technology and the Environment (ASTUTE)
- Citation count
- 11
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This Johns Hopkins University collaboration improves public trust in US/UK health services by showing a lack of systematic bias in clinical decision making relating to race or gender of doctors. Otherwise, people could request doctors of a particular race or gender, creating expensive logistical problems with making appointments. Another finding that decision making of doctors differs according to the patient race informed a randomised controlled trial (BMC Med Educ 20, 88, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02004-9) that supported an intervention to countermand it. A Race Equality Foundation (2019) report
(https://raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mental-health-report-v5-2.pdf) likewise used the paper's results to recommend improvements for black people's health care.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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