Effect of Physician Gender and Race on Simulated Patients' Ratings and Confidence in Their Physicians: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Women and black physicians encounter workplace challenges because of their gender and race. It is unclear whether these individuals are assessed with lower patient satisfaction or confidence ratings compared with white male physicians.

Objective

To examine whether physician gender and race affect participant ratings in scenarios in which physician competence is challenged.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized trial enrolled a geographically diverse sample of 3592 online respondents in the United States who were recruited from 2 crowdsourcing platforms: Amazon Mechanical Turk (n = 1741) and Lucid (n = 1851). A 2 × 2 factorial design for the gender and race of simulated physicians was conducted between March 9 and July 25, 2018. Participants were

SUBMITTER: Solnick RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7043197 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature