Background: Race and racism are social determinants of health resulting in marginalized groups often experiencing worse health outcomes. These racial differences are often due to physician bias as well as biased processes. To mitigate this, it is recommended that clinicians avoid reifying racial differences as biological differences. This study describes the use of racial identifiers […]

Background: Hospitalists are core to the U.S. inpatient provider workforce and serve a central role in adults’ inpatient health system interactions. Over 11 million Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) [1] and 1 in 6 LGBTQ Americans describe facing discrimination in the medical setting [2]. To provide culturally responsive and clinically […]

Background: Equity is one of the fundamental domains of quality in healthcare. Disparities occur in clinical research enrollment among patients of racial and ethnic minority groups and low socioeconomic status. The racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 incidence and mortality accentuates the inequities in access to and representation in clinical trials. In the Adaptive COVID-19 […]