Could Provider Bias Play a Role in Gynecological Health, Sexual Health and Gynecological Cancer Disparities Observed Among a Cohort of Non-English-Speaking Women with HIV living in Southern Florida?
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As part of an ongoing, prospective study developing an HIV adherence and engagement intervention for women in Southern Florida, we abstracted baseline demographic, psychosocial and medical history data charted in the participants’ electronic medical records. Several differences were observed, in terms of documentation of gynecological and sexual and health data by patients’ linguistic preference. The purpose of this quantitative, retrospective study was to test the differences of data documentation by linguistic group and comment on the findings.
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DUTHELY, Lunthita M. et al.
Could Provider Bias Play a Role in Gynecological Health, Sexual Health and Gynecological Cancer Disparities Observed Among a Cohort of Non-English-Speaking Women with HIV living in Southern Florida?.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 11, nov. 2024.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/6056>. Date accessed: 12 dec. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v12i11.6056.
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40. Bayen S, Ottavioli P, Martin MJ, Cottencin O, Bayen M, Messaadi N. How Doctors' Beliefs Influence Gynecological Health Care for Women Who Have Sex with Other Women. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2020;29(3):406-11 doi: 10.1089/jwh.2019.7926 [published Online First: 20200102].
41. Aromaa A, Kero K, Grönlund J, et al. Let's talk about sexuality - A web-based survey of self-reported competence in sexual problems among obstetrician-gynecologists in Finland. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 2023;102(2):190-99 doi: 10.1111/aogs.14492 [published Online First: 20221214].
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44. Harper DM, Tariq M, Alhawli A, Syed N, Patel M, Resnicow K. Cancer risk perception and physician communication behaviors on cervical cancer and colorectal cancer screening. eLife 2021;10:e70003 doi: 10.7554/eLife.70003.
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46. Otero Varela L, Wiebe N, Niven DJ, et al. Evaluation of interventions to improve electronic health record documentation within the inpatient setting: a protocol for a systematic review. Syst Rev 2019;8(1):54 doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-0971-2 [published Online First: 20190213].
47. Yemane L, Mateo CM, Desai AN. Race and Ethnicity Data in Electronic Health Records-Striving for Clarity. JAMA Netw Open 2024;7(3):e240522 doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.0522 [published Online First: 20240304].