Revealing Disparities: Health Care Workers’ Observations of Discrimination Against Patients.
Fernandez H, Ayo-Vaughan M, Zephyrin LC, et al. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; February 15, 2024.
Clinicians and health care workers that closely interface with patients are apt to perceive important relational characteristics affecting care. This report summarizes data examining discriminatory actions observed by health care workers within care exchanges and found that close to 50% of those surveyed had witnessed biased interactions associated with patient primary language, race, and ethnicity.