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HIV meds dialogue differs by race, ethnicity

By Guest PostFebruary 1, 2014Healthasian ancestry, black, culture, factor, hispanic, hispanic patients, hiv care, hiv medicine, hiv meds dialogue, ira wilson, jonathan cohn, m barton laws, minority patients, somnath saha, utterances, volume of dialogue, yoojin lee

Researchers found specific racial/ethnic differences in discussions of HIV medicine adherence in a newly published analysis of recorded office visits between 45 doctors and nurse practitioners and more than 400 patients.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A lot of evidence shows that a patients’ race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, and their health outcomes. In HIV care, a key to those outcomes is whether people take their medications as prescribed. A new study of the doctor-patient dialogue about HIV drug adherence found several specific differences in those conversations depending on patients’ race and ethnicity. (more…)

Minorities and poor have more advanced thyroid cancers when diagnosed, UCLA study shows

Black patients fare worst; Asians, Hispanics survive longest with disease

UCLA researchers have found that minority patients and those of lower socioeconomic status are far more likely to have advanced thyroid cancer when they are diagnosed with the disease than white patients and those in higher economic brackets.

In one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, the UCLA team looked at nearly 26,000 patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer and analyzed the impact of race and socioeconomic factors on the stage of presentation, as well as patient survival rates. (more…)

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HIV meds dialogue differs by race, ethnicity

Minorities and poor have more advanced thyroid cancers when diagnosed, UCLA study shows