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Re:Jewish Problems (2011) by pella on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:37PM (#28137689)
"Study Finds Patients Prefer Doctors Who Share Their Same Race/Ethnicity ; In an analysis of more than 100,000 patient surveys, Penn researchers found that patient-provider race concordance led to higher odds of receiving maximum patient experience scores"

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2020/novembe...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

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Re:Jewish Problems (2011) by docdocgoose on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:41AM (#28140761)
An important 2012 study found that higher patient satisfaction is correlated with higher costs and death. This is not counter intuitive if one has practiced medicine. Point being that healthcare isn’t a classic consumer product and social experiments like patient/provider concordance have complex effects.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

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