Meanings of minority patients in English

The aim of this study was to examine time trends of hospital discharge among minority patients with IBD.

Prevention relies on periodic DR screening, yet overall national screening rates are not optimal, especially in low-income, minority patients.

Homeless individuals were more likely to report hospitalization barriers, whereas older and minority patients generally encountered fewer problems accessing treatment.

The researchers compared data on clinics with a third or more of minority patients to others with fewer than a third.

Conclusions: There were several trials that enrolled either more or less minority patients than expected based on patients hospitalized at study sites.

For example, Harper said, it's possible minority patients are sicker than whites, on average, and doctors wait to treat them for good reason.

Suggestions that ethnic minority patients are much more likely to have engaged in serious violence and need high-security placement were not borne out.

California's ethnic diversity may allow for more "culturally competent care" that ultimately improves outcomes for minority patients, he and his colleagues said.

A survey of healthcare professionals involved in U.S. clinical trials found minority patients often were not considered "optimal" choices, researchers report in Cancer.

And 12.6% of minority patients said they were never able to see a doctor who shared or understood their culture.

Collectively, they saw the probability of minority patients receiving minimally invasive surgery expand to about 3.2 percentage points lower than for whites.

Using data from a 2010 U.S. survey, researchers found that about 54 percent of minority patients report their doctors are not white.

The authors conducted a diabetes quality improvement project in 5 privately owned primary care practices serving at least 25% minority patients.

When trials were separated by intervention type, 13 of the 19 trials that had an invasive arm enrolled fewer minority patients than expected.