Provider Contributions to Disparities in Mental Health Care

What is it about?

Limited research is available exploring the interaction of patient race-ethnicity with provider performance. The authors used medical records to examine the extent that racial-ethnic disparities in adherence to antidepressant medication and psychotherapy partially depended on the patient-provider. Results showed provider-level differences in adherence. Further, a larger percentage of racial-ethnic minority patients in a providers caseload was associated with lower adherence for non-Hispanic-white patients.

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