Study: Race stills play a role in ER care
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
July 25, 2007
A new Harvard study found instances of racial bias in the care delivered by emergency department (ED) physician trainees. The trainees offered different treatments to hypothetical white and African-American patients with identical medical histories and symptoms, according to The Boston Globe.
The hypothetical heart patient was on average less likely to receive clot-busting medications if the profile described him as African-American, according to the study.
