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    Health Aff (Millwood). 2008 Mar-Apr;27(2):507-17.

    Disparities in physician care: experiences and perceptions of a multi-ethnic America.

    Blendon RJ, Buhr T, Cassidy EF, Pérez DJ, Sussman T, Benson JM, Herrmann MJ.

    Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. rblendon@hsph.harvard.edu

    This 2007 Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey of 4,334 randomly selected U.S. adults compared perceptions of the quality of physician care among fourteen racial and ethnic groups with those of whites. On each measure examined, at least five and as many as eleven subgroups perceived their care to be significantly worse than care for whites. In many instances, subgroups were at least fifteen percentage points more negative than whites. This was true for Central/South Americans, Chinese Americans, and Korean Americans on five of seven measures. Many of the differences remained after socioeconomic characteristics and language skills were controlled for.

    PMID: 18332509 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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