Citations with the tag: DISCRIMINATION in medical care
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- Researchers find age bias in treatment of severely ill patients.
Asplund, Jon // AHA News; 09/23/96, Vol. 32 Issue 38, p4Reports on the findings of a study indicating health professionals' rationing of resources spent on older patients. Evidence of age bias in medical care; Debate over the effective, age-specific treatments.
- Minorities fear discrimination in Medicaid managed care.
Figura, Susannah Zak // AHA News; 11/17/97, Vol. 33 Issue 45, p3Reports on American minorities' fears of being discriminated against in the implementation of Medicaid managed care. Goals of Medicaid managed care; Examples of discrimination cited by Medicaid managed care critics; Shortcomings of Medicaid managed care.
- Opening doors for your patients.
Chapman, Thomas W. // Trustee; Mar95, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p16Discusses ways to remove sociocultural barriers to the delivery of health care in the United States. Reduction of the health care debate to cost alone as an oversimplification of the issue; Patient-provider relationships; Use of health care services; Health outcomes; Popularity of Opening...
- Majority population may have no care.
Chapman, Thomas W. // Grand Rapids Business Journal; 09/14/98, Vol. 16 Issue 37, p4Opinion. Comments on the racial discrimination in the health care sector in Michigan. Increase in the underserved patient population; Moral issues involving racial disparities in health status; Impact on the state's overall quality of life.
- Civil rights in a changing health care system.
Rosenbaum, Sara; Serrano, Rafael // Health Affairs; Jan/Feb97, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p90Deals with discriminatory conduct in medical care directed against persons by reason of race, color and origin, and against recipients of federal financial assistance. Overview of the Civil Act Rights of 1964; Occurrence of discrimination in a fee-for-service medicine; Areas of managed care...
- Unequal treatment.
Serb, Chris // H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks; 05/20/97, Vol. 71 Issue 10, p15Reports the research study conducted by the University of California on service discriminations on health maintenance organizations' (HMOs) members. Similar case in insurance plans services.
- "From Policy to Action: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the Ground-Level,".
Serb, Chris // Health Affairs; Mar/Apr2008, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p574An abstract of the article "From Policy to Action: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the Ground-Level" is presented.
- Do Medicaid waivers promote racial differences?
Serb, Chris // Brown University Long-Term Care Quality Advisor; 11/11/96, Vol. 8 Issue 21, p8Focuses on whether Medicaid waiver programs which are concentrated in racially segregated areas promote racial differences. Features of the programs; Benefits of the programs; Criticisms of the programs; Implication on the racial segregation of older, disabled minorities.
- VIRGINIA.
Serb, Chris // Advocate; 1/31/89, Issue 517, p18Cites a survey released by the Virginia Health Department on December 15, 1988, which found that more than a third of Virginia's physicians and nearly three quarters of its dentists were at least somewhat unwilling to treat patients who test positive for HIV antibodies.
- Differences by race in the rates of procedures performed in hospitals for Medicare beneficiaries.
McBean, A. Marshall; Gornick, Marian // Health Care Financing Review; Summer94, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p77Compares differences by race in the use of major procedures performed in hospitals for Medicare beneficiaries. Analysis of administrative data from the Medicare program; Assertion that black beneficiaries were less likely than white beneficiaries to have received these medical procedures;...
- In defence of ageism.
Shaw, A.B. // Journal of Medical Ethics; Sep94, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p188Answers arguments against ageism which prefers younger people in the allocation of health care. Consideration of the right to treatment as well as the benefit gained; Need for rationing of medical care; Imperfect correlation between biological age and chronological age; Discrimination against...
- Perceptions and misperceptions of skin color.
Caldwell, Stephen H.; Popenoe, Rebecca // Annals of Internal Medicine; 4/15/95, Vol. 122 Issue 8, p614Focuses on the limitations of the diagnostic and therapeutic utility of the racial labels `black' and `white.' Effect on the patient's health risk and outcomes for various diseases; Superficiality of racial divisions; Genetic background the American population.
- Hospitals and civil rights, 1945-1963: The case of Simkins v Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.
Reynolds, P. Preston // Annals of Internal Medicine; 06/01/97, Vol. 126 Issue 11, p898Opinion. Presents the view that the legacy of discrimination against blacks still existed in all areas of medicine during the 1960s, with emphasis on the case of Simkins versus Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, a decision by the United States Supreme Court which led to the elimination of...
- Discrimination in health care.
Thomson, Gerald E. // Annals of Internal Medicine; 06/01/97, Vol. 126 Issue 11, p910Editorial. Discusses racial discrimination in health care in the United States. Number of areas of America where African-American patients were barred from appropriate hospital care; Reference to the 1960s Hills-Burton Act; Impact of the discrimination on many African-American hospitals.
- Who is `black' in medical research?
Azuonye, Ikechukwu Obial // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition); 9/21/96, Vol. 313 Issue 7059, p760Comments on a directive from the British Department of Health, requiring the identification of ethnic origins of inpatients. Differentiating black from white patients; Measures of blackness; Political, visual and cultural measures of blackness.
- discrimination.
Azuonye, Ikechukwu Obial // Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (2009); 2009, Issue 21, p662Definitions of the term "discrimination" which refer to the process of distinguishing or differentiating, unequal and unfair treatment or denial of rights or privileges without reasonable cause, and the accuracy with which risk factors separate a population into healthy and the sick are presented.
- Report: Racial disparities seen in care for Medicare managed care enrollees.
Parker, Che // AHA News; 3/18/2002, Vol. 38 Issue 10, p12Presents a study that proved the existence of a racial disparity among African-American Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in managed care health plans in the U.S. Details of a study which was published on March 13, 2002 in the 'Journal of the Medical Association'; Information on the lack of...
- Discrimination Persists in Healthcare.
Price, Hugh B. // New York Amsterdam News; 01/07/99, Vol. 90 Issue 2, p12Opinion. Comments on the existence of race discrimination in health care in the United States. Features of a series of articles published in `Newsday' newspaper in November 1998; Areas of medicine where discrimination is prevalent; Proposals to solve the problem.
- Mount Sinai gets flak.
Feiden, Doug; Mirabella, Alan // Crain's New York Business; 11/8/93, Vol. 9 Issue 45, p6Reports on the charges of racist practices leveled against the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Allegation by Black United Fund of New York founder Kermit Eady; Issue of employee contributions to the Black United Way; Statement from the Center's management.
- Wake-up Call.
Stone, John R.; Dula, Annette // Hastings Center Report; Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p48Discusses the findings of the report 'Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.' Causes of health disparities between whites and non-whites; Suggestions to health care institutions, professionals and ethnic minorities to deal with the issue.
- Better benefits for health: Plan to implement the central recommendation of the Acheson report.
Black, Douglas; Morris, J N; Smith, Cyril; Townsend, Peter // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition); 03/13/99, Vol. 318 Issue 7185, p724Reports on the plan to implement the recommendations on the report regarding the increasing gap in inequalities in health by Sir Donald Acheson and his group. Affordable reduction of inequalities of health; Policies causing standards of living to diverge; Annual estimated cost of meeting the...
- A win for men.
Wilson, Beth // Legaldate; Mar96, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p8Reports on the success of three men with osteoporosis in having their case upheld by the Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, after the commission has discovered discrimination by the government in not including the drug Calcicontrol to men under its Pharmaceutical Benefits...
- OUR WORK IS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE AFFECTED BY PREJUDICES.
Foster, Lei // Nursing Standard; 11/25/2009, Vol. 24 Issue 12, p33No abstract available.
- Effects of Client Race on Clinical Judgment.
Rosenthal, David A.; Berven, Norman L. // Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin; Mar99, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p243Presents a study that examined the effects of client race on the clinical judgment of white graduate students in rehabilitation counseling. Discussion on the bias in clinical judgment; Method of the study; Results and discussion.
- Health care redlining fears voiced.
Cox, Brian // National Underwriter / Property & Casualty Risk & Benefits Manag; 2/21/94, Vol. 98 Issue 8, p3Reports on the threat of health care redlining for residents under certain health care reform plans in the United States. Comments by witnesses on congressional hearing on health care reform; Provision in health care reform forbidding redlining.
- White Doctor Criticized For Granting Patient's Request To Keep Black Man Off Surgical Team.
Cox, Brian // Jet; 01/08/2001, Vol. 99 Issue 4, p18Discusses criticism of Dr. Michael R. Petracek, a white surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, for his request on behalf of a patient that black men be kept out of the operating room during her open-heart surgery.
- Hospitals probed for bias.
Harrington, John // Crain's New York Business; 12/6/93, Vol. 9 Issue 49, p42Reports on the study made by the New York state health investigators on the practice of several private city hospitals of separating Medicaid patients from those with private insurance. Allegation of deliberate racial bias in Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center's medical-surgical and maternity...
- Making a difference.
Tisdel, Yvonne // Modern Healthcare; 4/12/2004, Vol. 34 Issue 15, p21Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "A Melting Pot It's Not," about discrimination in medical care, published on the August 11, 2003 issue of the periodical "Modern Healthcare."
- 'Tsar' wants race audit.
Ball, Martin // Community Care; 6/8/2006, Issue 1626, p24A letter to the editor is presented on conducting a race equality impact assessment on the planned amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 in Great Britain.
- Visitor rule in works.
Pecquet, Julian // Hill; 6/24/2010, Vol. 17 Issue 73, p18The article reports on the proposed rule from the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama which will be requiring hospitals to allow patients to designate their visitors in 2010.
- Re: Low A, Low A. Measuring the gap: quantifying and comparing local health inequalities. J Publ Hlth 2004; 26: 388�395.
Adams, Jean // Journal of Public Health; Jun2005, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p231A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Measuring the gap: quantifying and comparing local health inequalities," by A. Low and A. Low in the 2004 issue.
- Reply.
Low, Anne; Low, Allan // Journal of Public Health; Jun2005, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p231A response by Allan and Anne Low to a letter to the editor about their article "Measuring the gap: quantifying and comparing local health inequalities" in the 2004 issue is presented.
- To the Editor.
Heydt, Helmut // Quintessence International; Sep1987, Vol. 18 Issue 9, p595A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Beauty and the beast," by Richard Simonsen in the February 1987 issue.
- To the Editor.
Dreyer, W. P. // Quintessence International; Sep1987, Vol. 18 Issue 9, p596A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Beauty and the beast" in the February 1987 issue.
- Trends in Racial Disparities in Care.
Kuller, Lewis H. // New England Journal of Medicine; 11/10/2005, Vol. 353 Issue 19, p2081A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article on racial discrimination in health care, in the August 18, 2005 issue.
- Trends in Racial Disparities in Care.
Keppel, Kenneth G.; Pearcy, Jeffrey N.; Weissman, Joel S. // New England Journal of Medicine; 11/10/2005, Vol. 353 Issue 19, p2081A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article on racial discrimination among blacks and whites regarding health care, in a previous issue.
- Trends in Racial Disparities in Care.
Akpunonu, Basil E.; Mutgi, Anand B.; Khuder, Sadik A. // New England Journal of Medicine; 11/10/2005, Vol. 353 Issue 19, p2081A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article on racial discrimination in health care for carotid endarterectomy, in a previous issue.
- Trends in Racial Disparities in Care.
Vaccarino, Viola // New England Journal of Medicine; 11/10/2005, Vol. 353 Issue 19, p2081A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article on racial discrimination in health care among blacks and whites regarding cardiovascular diseases, in a previous issue.
- Trends in Racial Disparities in Care.
Jha, Ashish K.; Epstein, Arnold M.; Orav, E. John // New England Journal of Medicine; 11/10/2005, Vol. 353 Issue 19, p2081A response from Ashish K. Jha and colleagues to a letter to the editor on the racial discrimination in medical care among black and white Americans is presented.
- Blog gripes.
Bates, Jane // Nursing Standard; 3/3/2010, Vol. 24 Issue 26, p27The article discusses the author's view that some nurses have expressed discriminatory beliefs with respect to some patients, such as those who are obese, whom they see as having brought on their own illness. The author argues that such discrimination violates nursing ethics.
- False Diagnosis.
Young, Cathy; Lynch, Michael W. // Reason; May2001, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p22Discusses the gender bias in medical research in the United States. Concerns of women's health advocates; Impact of the sexism issue on breast cancer research; Men's Health Act introduced by Representative Randy Cunningham of California.
- How your race affects your medical treatment.
Moorer, Talise D. // New York Amsterdam News; 04/20/2000, Vol. 91 Issue 16, p15Focuses on a lecture by Harold Freeman which explored the social, political and scientific meaning of race in health and medical treatment in New York City. Consideration of what society interprets race to be and how it responds to classification; Role of poverty in the occurrence of certain...
- Doctor of discrimination.
Kerr, Anji // Community Care; 7/28/2005, Issue 1583, p20Presents a letter to the editor about an article on the discriminatory practice in medical care, published in the July 2005 issue of the periodical "Community Care."
- Race and tenure case was not handled fairly by MIT.
Sherley, James // Nature; 7/19/2007, Vol. 448 Issue 7151, p250A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Researcher Refuse to Back Down Over Race Case" in the 2007 issue.
- Race: talented minorities face a 'revolving door'.
Barres, Ben // Nature; 7/19/2007, Vol. 448 Issue 7151, p250A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Researchers refuses to back down over race case" in the 2007 issue.
- The ER Incident.
Hill, Terry Eli // Annals of Internal Medicine; 5/15/92, Vol. 116 Issue 10, p867Discusses the incidence of race discrimination in medicine. Details of an emergency room incident which allegedly intended to ridicule a black patient; Views on the existence of racism in the medical world; Factors which contribute to a doctor's tendency to become cynical and disillusioned.
- Blacks Receive Fewer Kidney Transplants And Wait Longer Than Whites, New Study Finds.
Hill, Terry Eli // Jet; 12/11/2000, Vol. 99 Issue 1, p6Reports on a study which found that there is disparity in the number of kidney transplants received by blacks and whites in the United States, with discussion on the reasons thereof.
- The Down's side of organ transplants.
McGovern, Celeste // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine; 4/3/95, Vol. 22 Issue 16, p44Discusses the implications of the disqualification of Down's Syndrome patient Terry Urquhart from consideration for lung transplant on the prospects for medical care equality in Alberta. Fiscal constraints on healthcare delivery; Charges of discrimination against the University of Alberta in...
- READER POLL.
McGovern, Celeste // Gay & Lesbian Times; 3/13/2003, Issue 794, p14Presents the results of a survey about whether doctors should have the right to deny a patient non-emergency medical treatment, based on their religious beliefs or personal convictions.
- HIT committee focuses on healthcare disparities.
McGovern, Celeste // Contemporary Pediatrics; Jul2010, Vol. 27 Issue 7, p18No abstract available.
