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Are you "noncompliant?"

And other healthcare stories.

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Libby Watson
Feb 21, 2022
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This week, I wanted to draw your attention to this story from the New York Times: Two new studies have found that Black patients are more likely to be described as “noncompliant” in medical records. The first study found that “two and a half times as likely as white patients to have at least one negative descriptive term used in their electronic health …

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