Ethics of documenting patient's race and ethnicity in dermatology clinical notes and presentations

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2023 Jan;88(1):267. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2022.02.020. Epub 2022 Feb 18.

Authors

Mehdi Farshchian¹, Jane M Grant-Kels²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
² Department of Dermatology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut; Department of Dermatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Electronic address: grant@uchc.edu.

PMID: 35189255
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2022.02.020

No abstract available

Keywords: discrimination; ethnicity in health care; medical education; medical ethics; racial disparities; skin of color.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Dermatology*
Ethnicity
Humans
Racial Groups
Racism*
United States