Effect of Physician Race and Gender on Simulated Patients' Ratings

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Conditions studied: Bias, Racial, Bias, Sex, Patient Satisfaction, Physician-Patient Relations

In brief

The purpose of the study was to determine whether the race and gender of a simulated doctor affected analog patients' reported confidence and satisfaction in the simulated doctor's diagnosis and treatment plan. The study used two randomized patient analog experiments. This study is complete and pre-analysis plans (PAPs) for each experiment were published prior to data collection. The PAPs are available at: http://aspredicted.org/blind.php?x=43xj25 (Study 1) and https://aspredicted.org/blind.php?x=369st7 (Study 2).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04190901

Run by

Yale University

People needed

3592

Starts

2018-03-09

Expected to finish

2018-07-31

Last updated by the study team

2020-07-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults over 18 years old

You may not qualify if…

• Participants who reported current pregnancy
• Participants who reported a current or prior diagnosis of cancer
• Participants who reported a history of abdominal surgery

Where it is running

• Yale University — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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