| Literature DB >> 34788577 |
Katie Fitzgerald Jones1, Esther Laury2, Justin J Sanders3, Lauren T Starr4, William E Rosa5, Staja Q Booker6, Melissa Wachterman7, Christopher A Jones8, Susan Hickman9, Jessica S Merlin10, Salimah H Meghani11,12,13.
Abstract
Racial disparities, including decreased hospice utilization, lower quality symptom management, and poor-quality end-of-life care have been well documented in Black Americans. Improving health equity and access to high-quality serious illness care is a national palliative care (PC) priority. Accomplishing these goals requires clinician reflection, engagement, and large-scale change in clinical practice and health-related policies. In this article, we provide an overview of key concepts that underpin racism in health care, discuss common serious illness disparities in Black Americans, and propose steps to promote the delivery of antiracist PC.Entities:
Keywords: advance care planning; health inequities; implicit bias; racial inequities, serious illness; structural racism
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Year: 2021 PMID: 34788577 PMCID: PMC9022452 DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0502
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Palliat Med ISSN: 1557-7740 Impact factor: 2.947