Home Health Care Clinicians' Use of Judgment Language for Black and Hispanic Patients: Natural Language Processing Study

• Main Authors: Maxim Topaz (Author), Jiyoun Song (Author), Anahita Davoudi (Author), Margaret McDonald (Author), Jacquelyn Taylor (Author), Scott Sittig (Author), Kathryn Bowles (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundA clinician's biased behavior toward patients can affect the quality of care. Recent literature reviews report on widespread implicit biases among clinicians. Although emerging studies in hospital settings show racial biases in the language used in clinical documentation within electr...