Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

Background Implicit biases involve associations outside conscious awareness that lead to a
negative evaluation of a person on the basis of irrelevant characteristics such as race or …

Importance Negative attitudes toward patients can adversely impact health care quality and
contribute to health disparities. Stigmatizing language written in a patient's medical record …

Background. In the United States, people of color face disparities in access to health care,
the quality of care received, and health outcomes. The attitudes and behaviors of health care …

This article draws upon a major social science theoretical approach–systemic racism theory–
to assess decades of empirical research on racial dimensions of US health care and public …

Purpose Health providers' implicit racial bias negatively affects communication and patient
reactions to many medical interactions. However, its effects on racially discordant oncology …

Objective To understand racial bias in clinical settings from the perspectives of minority
patients and healthcare providers to inspire changes in the way healthcare providers …

Existing literature on implicit bias is fragmented and comes from a variety of fields like
cognitive psychology, business ethics, and higher education, but implicit-bias-informed …

Improving the quality of contraceptive counseling is one strategy to prevent unintended
pregnancy. We identify aspects of relational and task-oriented communication in family …

Purpose: There are no large controlled studies of health disparities in transgender (TG) or
gender dysphoric patients. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest …