Association of Racial and Socioeconomic Diversity With Implicit Bias in Acute Care Surgery

Laura Zebib; Bethany Strong; Gabrielle Moore; Gabriel Ruiz; Rishi Rattan; Tanya L Zakrison

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.5855

Association of Racial and Socioeconomic Diversity With Implicit Bias in Acute Care Surgery

JAMA Surg. 2019 May 1;154(5):459-461. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2018.5855.

Authors

Laura Zebib¹, Bethany Strong², Gabrielle Moore³, Gabriel Ruiz⁴, Rishi Rattan⁴, Tanya L Zakrison⁴

Affiliations

¹ Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York.
² Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee.
⁴ Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Ryder Trauma Center, DeWitt Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

Abstract

This study assesses whether racial and socioeconomic diversity mitigates the existence of implicit bias in the field of trauma care among surgical health care professionals.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Female
Follow-Up Studies
General Surgery / ethics*
Humans
Male
Racial Groups*
Racism / ethnology*
Socioeconomic Factors
Surgeons / psychology*
United States / epidemiology