Annals of Family Medicine 3:138-143 (2005)
© 2005 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.282
Patients Beliefs About Racism, Preferences for Physician Race, and Satisfaction With Care
Frederick M. Chen, MD, MPH1,
George E. Fryer, Jr, PhD2,
Robert L. Phillips, Jr, MD, MSPH2,
Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH3 and
Donald E. Pathman, MD, MPH4
1 Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Md
2 The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care, Washington, DC
3 Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Calif
4 Department of Family Medicine and Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

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Figure 1. Associations between Discriminatory Belief Scales scores and the preferred race/ethicity of ones doctor. * P <.01 compared with no preference.
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Figure 2. Percentage of African Americans and Latinos rating their physicians as "excellent," by racial and ethnic preferences and concordance. * P <.001 when compared with African Americans who prefer a same race doctor but have a non-African American doctor.
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