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...discrepancy—which has been well documented—but also discrepancies within the same health care plans. “Other studies have focused on whether white and African-American patients are equally likely to receive simple blood tests,” said co-author John Z. Ayanian, associate professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School. “In our study, we focus on the outcomes of care,” Researchers tracked 334,204 patients within over 100 different Medicare-managed care plans, said Amal N. Trivedi, another co-author...
White doctors are more able to communicate with patients who are "closer to them culturally," said Dr. John Z. Ayanian, assistant professor of medicine and health care policy...
...Ayanian, who also works at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said he believes results would be similar for other conditions such as heart disease...
...researchers looked at kidney transplants in part because the HCFA's program makes money less of an issue for patients who do not have their own insurance, Ayanian said...
...Ayanian is currently working on a survey of the physicians who cared for the patients in this study...
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