ArticleHealth communication2023
Investigating the Relationship between Resident Physician Implicit Bias and Language Use during a Clinical Encounter with Hispanic Patients.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Sharing Patient-Generated Health Data: The Role of Healthcare Quality, Mistrust, and Discrimination Across Race-Gender Identities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Protocol to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a randomized controlled trial of a chaplain-delivered compassion intervention to improve psychological safety among interprofessional healthcare teams.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Disparities in Documentation: Evidence of Race-Based Biases in the Electronic Medical Record.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Evaluating for Evidence of Sociodemographic Bias in Conversational AI for Mental Health Support.Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking · 2025Article
- Examining the relationships among physician implicit bias, language, and Hispanic patient satisfaction.PloS one · 2025Article
- Treatment Disparities in Hispanic Patients with Chronic Pain: An Evidence-Based Narrative Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Smartphone-Based Virtual and Augmented Reality Implicit Association Training (VARIAT) for Reducing Implicit Biases Toward Patients Among Health Care Providers: App Development and Pilot Testing.JMIR serious games · 2024Article
- Gender and ethnicity bias in medicine: a text analysis of 1.8 million critical care records.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
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Abstract
Prior research suggests that the implicit biases of physicians are negatively associated with quality of medical care and patient satisfaction among minority patients. However, relatively little is known about how physicians express these subtle forms of bias in patient interactions. This study examined the implicit and explicit anti-Hispanic biases of 53 resident physicians and the relationship between anti-Hispanic bias and language use during outpatient medical appointments with 291 Hispanic patients. Physician implicit bias was positively associated with use of interrogatives and work-related words and negatively associated with the use of prepositions and relativity-related words (e.g., words related to time and the future). These findings contribute to the growing body of evidence suggesting that, in addition to nonverbal and paraverbal behaviors, providers may communicate implicit bias to patients through the words they use during a clinical visit.
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