PURPOSE Although concordance by race and sex in physician-patient relationships has
been associated with patient ratings of better care, mechanisms through which concordance …

Social characteristics (eg race, gender, age, education) are associated with health care
disparities. We introduce social concordance, a composite measure of shared social …

Objective: To examine patient preferences for age-, gender-, and racial/ethnic-concordant
primary care physicians. Design: Focus group interviews. Patients and Setting: Forty-nine …

ContextMany studies have documented race and gender differences in health care received
by patients. However, few studies have related differences in the quality of interpersonal …

Ethnic minorities are poorly represented among physicians and other health professionals.
In what is called “race-discordant” relationships, patients from ethnic groups frequently are …

BACKGROUND Medical interactions between Black patients and non-Black physicians are
less positive and productive than racially concordant ones and contribute to racial disparities …

Background: African-American patients who visit physicians of the same race rate their
medical visits as more satisfying and participatory than do those who see physicians of other …

We examined a national sample of African American, white, Hispanic, and Asian American
respondents to test the hypothesis that doctor-patient race concordance is predictive of …

There is increasing evidence that racial and ethnic minority patients receive lower quality
interpersonal care than white patients. Therapeutic relationships constitute the interpersonal …

A compelling body of research supports the race concordance hypothesis, which asserts
that racially minoritized patients who share the same race and ethnicity with their provider …