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Primary care decision making in response to psychological complaints: the influence of patient race
Author(s) -
Di Caccavo Antonietta,
FazalShort Nasreen,
Moss Timothy P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1298(200001/02)10:1<63::aid-casp533>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - complaint , anxiety , race (biology) , white (mutation) , psychology , clinical psychology , primary care , psychiatry , medicine , family medicine , sociology , biochemistry , chemistry , political science , law , gene , gender studies
Eighteen general practitioners indicated diagnostic and treatment decisions in response to patient vignettes. Results indicated that White patients were more likely to be correctly diagnosed as having anxiety than any other complaint. Asians were just as likely to receive a physical diagnosis as they were to receive one of anxiety. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.