Objectives: To determine: 1) whether racial and ethnic differences exist in patients ... perceptions of health care system-wide bias and cultural competence are not fully explained by such factors.

Objective: Increasing focus on improving patient ... University Hospital. The "Safety Climate Survey" was used to gain information about the front-line health care providers' perceptions toward ...

A society's view of human motivation influences ... based models of health care payment such as accountable care organizations, the patient-centered medical home, hospital-at-home, and senior ...

Potential factors included patients’ understanding of the condition, assessed with the Illness Perception Questionnaire ... 0.82-1), measured via the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale ...

Such shifts in perception may be subtle and unintentional in many cases, but as these hidden biases stack up, they can influence the care ... patient well-being. Even while hospital leaders ...