Perspectives About Racism and Patient-Clinician Communication Among Black Adults With Serious Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Black patients with serious illness experience higher-intensity care at the end of life. Little research has used critical, race-conscious approaches to examine factors associated with these outcomes.

Objective

To investigate the lived experiences of Black patients with serious illness and how various factors may be associated with patient-clinician communication and medical decision-making.

Design, setting, and participants

In this qualitative study, one-on-one, semistructured interviews were conducted with 25 Black patients with serious illness hospitalized at an urban academic medical center in Washington State between January 2021 and February 2023. Patients were asked to discuss experiences with racism, how those experiences affected the way they commu

SUBMITTER: Brown CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10323709 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature