Patient Preferences and Health Disparities

dc.contributor.authorKatz, J. N.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:03:49Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:03:49Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractPreference-based care is transforming the patient-clinician relationship. In a traditional management model physicians make treatment decisions, while in the preference-based paradigm patients choose the treatments that best conform to their values. The preference model fulfills a fundamental tenet of high-quality care—that the patient should be involved in decisions concerning the care process. In addition to respecting patient preferences, another key health care priority is the elimination of well-documented racial, ethnic, and sex disparities in use of health care resources. While preference-based care and health care disparities have received considerable attention over the last decade, there has been limited inquiry into how these issues relate to each other. Moreover, it is possible that preference-based care may reinforce the very inequities and disparities that health care policy makers have pledged to remedy.
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.286.12.1506
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/sgfx-3nbn
dc.identifier.citationKatz, J. N. (2001) Patient Preferences and Health Disparities. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 286 (12). pp. 1506-1509.
dc.identifier.issn00987484
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 2921
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23554
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectblacks
dc.subjectdelivery of health care
dc.subjectpatient preference
dc.subjectpatient satisfaction
dc.titlePatient Preferences and Health Disparities
dc.typeArticle

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