ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR2012
Do doctors contribute to the social patterning of disease? The case of race/ethnic disparities in diabetes mellitus.
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- Social disparities in patient safety in primary care: a systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2018Pooled it
- The use of experimental vignette studies to identify drivers of variations in the delivery of health care: a scoping review.BMC medical research methodology · 2021Article
- Does a Physician's Attitude toward a Patient with Mental Illness Affect Clinical Management of Diabetes? Results from a Mixed-Method Study.Health services research · 2015Article
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- Cohort profile: the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) survey.International journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
- Variations among primary care physicians in exercise advice, imaging, and analgesics for musculoskeletal pain: results from a factorial experiment.Arthritis care & research · 2014Article
- An additional cause of health care disparities: the variable clinical decisions of primary care doctors.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2013Article
- Physician styles of decision-making for a complex condition: Type 2 diabetes with co-morbid mental illness.European journal for person centered healthcareArticle
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Data from the Boston Area Community Health Survey show that both undiagnosed signs and symptoms and diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are patterned by socioeconomic status (SES). Such patterning is corroborated by National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data for diagnosed T2DM. Complementary data from an experiment concerning clinical decision making show T2DM is patterned by race/ethnicity, following diagnosis by a physician. Undiagnosed signs and symptoms of T2DM in the community are patterned by SES (rather than race/ethnicity), but following diagnosis by primary care physicians they are patterned more by race/ethnicity (rather than by SES). Race/ethnicity and SES in the United States are almost totally confounded, such that measuring one is essentially also measuring the other. Physician patterning of T2DM by race/ethnicity, however, motivates the search for genetic and biophysiologic explanations and distracts attention from the more important contribution of SES circumstances to the prevalence of diabetes mellitus.
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