Heart Disease
Studies from K.E. Lutfey and co-researchers in the area of heart disease published
Published in Women's Health Law Weekly, May 3rd, 2009
In this recently published article, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To (1) examine the influence of patient and provider attributes on physicians' diagnostic certainty and (2) assess the effect of diagnostic certainty on clinical therapeutic actions. Factorial experiment of 128 generalist physicians using identical clinically authentic videotaped vignettes depicting patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) or depression."
"For CHD, physicians were least certain for Black patients (p = .003) and for younger female patients (p = .013). For depression, average certainty was higher than for the CHD presentation (74.0 vs. 57.9 on of scale of 0-100,...
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