TY  - JOUR
T1  - RAcial disparities in end-of-life care—reply
AU  - Mack JW, Paulk E, Viswanath K, Prigerson HG
Y1  - 2011/05/23
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.196
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 941
EP  - 954
VL  - 171
IS  - 10
N2  - 
We appreciate the thoughtful letter from Dr Kuschner and welcome the opportunity to continue the conversation about racial disparities in end-of-life care. Dr Kuschner asks how a physician's race might influence communication and a patient's preferences for end-of-life care. Previous reports have suggested that a racial match between patients and physicians might well affect clinical interactions and medical decision making.1- 2 Unfortunately, no black physicians were involved in the care of the patients in our study. As a result, we are unable to test this interesting hypothesis. Moreover, our finding that black patients were more likely than white patients to prefer and receive aggressive end-of-life care cannot be explained by preferences for more aggressive care among black physicians.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.196
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.196
ER  -