The reduction of race and gender bias in clinical treatment recommendations using clinician peer networks in an experimental setting.

ABSTRACT: Bias in clinical practice, in particular in relation to race and gender, is a persistent cause of healthcare disparities. We investigated the potential of a peer-network approach to reduce bias in medical treatment decisions within an experimental setting. We created "egalitarian" information exchange networks among practicing clinicians who provided recommendations for the clinical management of patient scenarios, presented via standardized patient videos of actors portraying patients with cardiac chest pain. The videos, which were standardized for relevant clinical factors, presented either a white male actor or Black female actor of similar age, wearing the same attire and in the same clinical setting, portraying a patient with clinically significant chest pain symptoms. We found signif

SUBMITTER: Centola D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593068 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature