Patient Factors Associated With Biased Language in Nightly Resident Verbal Handoff

Austin Wesevich; Sonya Patel-Nguyen; Ilona Fridman; Erica Langan; Victoria Parente

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.2581

Patient Factors Associated With Biased Language in Nightly Resident Verbal Handoff

JAMA Pediatr. 2023 Oct 1;177(10):1098-1100. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.2581.

Authors

Austin Wesevich¹, Sonya Patel-Nguyen², Ilona Fridman³, Erica Langan⁴, Victoria Parente⁵

Affiliations

¹ Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois.
² Division of Hospital Medicine, Departments of Medicine & Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
³ Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
⁴ Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

PMID: 37578802
PMCID: PMC10425858 (available on 2024-08-14)
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.2581

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study uses audio recordings of resident handoff of inpatient general medicine and general pediatrics teams to measure the extent of stigmatizing language and describes associations between patient factors and biased language in handoffs.

MeSH terms

Humans
Internship and Residency*
Language
Patient Handoff*

Plain language summary

MeSH terms

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