Race, Trust, and Medical Decision-Making for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: Do Black Patients Trust the Messenger?

Markson, Favour; Kwaku, Kevin F

Markson, Favour; Kwaku, Kevin F.

Affiliation

Markson F; Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Lincoln Medical Center, Bronks, New York City, NY (F.M.).
Kwaku KF; Heart and Vascular Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH (K.F.K.).

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes ; 17(7): e011142, 2024 Jul.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38864204

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Black or African American; Clinical Decision-Making; Defibrillators, Implantable; Electric Countershock; Trust; Humans; Black or African American/psychology; Electric Countershock/instrumentation; Electric Countershock/adverse effects; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice/ethnology; Healthcare Disparities/ethnology; Physician-Patient Relations; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; United States

Key words

death, sudden, cardiac; defibrillators, implantable; primary prevention; ventricular fibrillation

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Black or African American / Electric Countershock / Defibrillators, Implantable / Trust / Clinical Decision-Making Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: America do norte Language: En Journal: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes Year: 2024 Document type: Article

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