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clinical penalty

2023-01-26 01:09:44.127185+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

RT Max Pearl @pearlbear@social.overlappingmagisteria.org

This is a really interesting study. When Black newborns are cared for by Black physicians, their "clinical penalty" that is the difference in mortality from white newborns is halved.

What's fascinating, if you dive in, is that this is despite the fact that Black physicians tend to have higher caseloads, and also tend to serve more underresourced patients.

Things that make you go hmmmmm...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1913405117

HT: @TheRaDR

Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns

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