Influence of Patients' Socioeconomic Status on Clinical Management Decisions: A Qualitative Study
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 6 (1), 53-59
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.749
Abstract
PURPOSE Little is known about how patients’ socioeconomic status (SES) influences physicians’ clinical management decisions, although this information may have important implications for understanding inequities in health care quality. We investigated physician perspectives on how patients’ SES influences care.Keywords
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