Patient-Provider Race Concordance and Primary Care Suicide Risk Screening in the Veterans Health Administration.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between patient-provider race concordance and the likelihood of being screened for suicide risk in Veterans Health Administration (VA) primary care settings.

Study setting and design

In November 2020, the VA expanded its national suicide risk identification strategy to include an annual universal suicide screening requirement. This study examined VA primary care visits from 2021 to 2022, where provider race and ethnicity could be identified. We examined the association between patient-provider race concordance and the probability of being screened for suicide risk, adjusting for patient and visit characteristics. Importantly, we also adjusted for provider fixed effects, which allowed us to estimate the effect of race concordant vs. non-c

SUBMITTER: Tran LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12277111 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature