Summary
Patients with mental illness may receive lower quality healthcare care than patients without mental illness. In this review of implicit and explicit biases of healthcare providers, the majority demonstrated unfavorable clinical decisions towards patients with mental illness.
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Crapanzano KA, Deweese S, Pham D, et al. The role of bias in clinical decision-making of people with serious mental illness and medical co-morbidities: a scoping review. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2023;50(2):236-262.