Xu G, Fields S K, Laine C, Veloski J J, Barzansky B, Martini C J
Jefferson Medical College, Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Am J Public Health. 1997 May;87(5):817-22. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.5.817.
The purpose of this study was to examine empirically the relationship between physicians' race or ethnicity and their care for medically underserved populations.
Generalist physicians who received the MD degree in 1983 or 1984 (n = 1581) were surveyed. The personal and background characteristics of four racial/ethnic groups of physicians were compared with the characteristics of their patients.
When the potentially confounding variables of gender, childhood family income, childhood residence, and National Health Services Corps financial aid obligations were controlled, generalist physicians from underrepresented minorities were more likely than their nonminority counterparts to care for medically underserved populations.
Physicians from underrepresented minorities are more likely than others to care for medically underserved populations.
本研究旨在实证检验医生的种族或族裔与他们为医疗服务不足人群提供的护理之间的关系。
对1983年或1984年获得医学博士学位的全科医生（n = 1581）进行了调查。将四个种族/族裔群体的医生的个人和背景特征与其患者的特征进行了比较。
当控制了性别、童年家庭收入、童年居住地和国家卫生服务团经济援助义务等潜在混杂变量后，来自代表性不足少数族裔的全科医生比非少数族裔同行更有可能为医疗服务不足人群提供护理。
来自代表性不足少数族裔的医生比其他人更有可能为医疗服务不足人群提供护理。
