Racial categories in medical practice: how useful are they?
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17896853.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1989738.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?
Medical subject headings
- Patient Care
- Professional Practice
- Racial Groups