Do Physicians' Implicit Views of African Americans Affect Clinical Decision Making?
The Journal of the American Board of Family MedicinePublished 1 March 2014Open access
M. N. Oliver, Kenneth M. Wells, Jennifer A. Joy-Gaba, Carlee Beth Hawkins, Brian A. Nosek
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Physicians possessed explicit and implicit racial biases, but those biases did not predict treatment recommendations and a web-based instrument was assessed as an intervention to decrease the effect of implicit racial bias.
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Physicians possessed explicit and implicit racial biases, but those biases did not predict treatment recommendations. Clinicians' biases about the medical cooperativeness of blacks versus whites, however, may have influenced treatment decisions.
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