ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2019
Physician Knowledge of Human Genetic Variation, Beliefs About Race and Genetics, and Use of Race in Clinical Decision-making.
Article in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Physicians' Perceptions of Race and Engagement in Race-Based Clinical Practice: a Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Educational considerations based on medical student use of polygenic risk information and apparent race in a simulated consultation.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2022Trial
- Ethical Priorities Among Commercial Genomics Professionals : Survey Evidence Highlighting Diversity, Fragmented Privacy Law, and Human Rights Risks as Central Participant Concerns.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Article
- Exploring Residents' Beliefs Regarding the Role of Race in Clinical Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study.Journal of graduate medical education · 2025Article
- Critical Self-reflection on Racism by Hospital Physicians in Large German Cities. A Qualitative Reconstructive Study Using Episodic Interviews.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Race-Based Care and Beliefs Regarding the Etiology of Racial Differences in Health Outcomes.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Recommendations on the use and reporting of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in genetic research: Experiences from the NHLBI TOPMed program.Cell genomics · 2022Article
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- A Comparison of Physicians' and Nurse Practitioners' Use of Race in Clinical Decision-Making.Ethnicity & disease · 2019Article
- Intersectionality and Clinical Decision Making: The Role of Race.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2019Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
backgroundRace in the USA has an enduring connection to health and well-being. It is often used as a proxy for ancestry and genetic variation, although self-identified race does not establish genetic risk of disease for an individual patient. How physicians reconcile these seemingly paradoxical facts as they make clinical decisions is unknown.
objectiveTo examine physicians' genetic knowledge and beliefs about race with their use of race in clinical decision-making
designCross-sectional survey of a national sample of clinically active general internists
resultsSeven hundred eighty-seven physicians completed the survey. Regression models indicate that genetic knowledge was not significantly associated with use of race. However, physicians who agreed with notions of race as a biological phenomenon and those who agreed that race has clinical importance were more likely to report using race in their decision-making.
conclusionsGenomic and precision medicine holds considerable promise for narrowing the gap in health among racial groups in the USA. For this promise to be realized, our findings suggest that future research and education efforts related to race, genomics, and health must go beyond educating health care providers about common genetic conditions to delving into assumptions about race and genetics.
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