Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Health Affairs is launching a new podcast next week!
Health Affairs Pathways explores the avenues and alleyways of the health care system through a variety of storytelling. Our first season is a six-part series from Lalita Abhyankar, a physician based in San Francisco, CA. Her series, titled Piecemeal, examines how consolidation in health care is affecting independent primary care.
In a new article to be featured in February’s theme issue, Racism and Health, Michael Sun and colleagues used machine learning techniques to analyze potentially stigmatizing language in the electronic health records (EHRs) of patients seen at an urban academic medical center.
They found that Black patients had 2.54 times the adjusted odds of having one or more negative descriptors, such as "non-adherent" and "agitated," in the history and physical notes of their EHRs even after adjusting for sociodemographic and health characteristics.
The researchers also reported that patients with Medicaid or Medicare insurance had higher adjusted odds of a negative descriptor compared with patients with private or employer-based insurance.
The upcoming February 2022 theme issue, Racism and Health, will be released on Monday, February 7.
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Ashley Fox and coauthors argue that population health surveys should include questions about political partisanship to better understand
the relationship between political affiliation and health risks and outcomes.
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