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Association Between Perceived Discrimination and Emergency Department Use Among Safety-Net Patients in the Southwestern United States

Objectives: Patients’ perceptions of how they are treated in their interactions with the healthcare system represent important and valid measures of healthcare quality that may influence health utilization, outcomes, and costs. Perceived discrimination or the sense of being treated unfairly is an important patient perception known to adversely affect health,…

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Perceived Discrimination in Healthcare Settings among Latinos with Limited English Proficiency in South Carolina

Objectives: Perceived discrimination in healthcare settings is reported frequently by Latino adults and is associated with reductions in healthcare utilization and having a usual source of care. Little is known about discrimination perceived by Latino adults with limited English proficiency (LEP) who also frequently experience difficulties with healthcare access and…

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