Understanding Concordance in Patient-Physician Relationships: Personal and Ethnic Dimensions of Shared Identity
Open Access
- 1 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 6 (3), 198-205
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.821
Abstract
PURPOSE Although concordance by race and sex in physician-patient relationships has been associated with patient ratings of better care, mechanisms through which concordance leads to better outcomes remains unknown. This investigation examined (1) whether patients’ perceptions of similarity to their physicians predicted their ratings of quality of care and (2) whether perceived similarity was influenced by racial and sexual concordance and the physician’s communication.Keywords
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