Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913405117
• Publication Date: 2020-08-18T00:33:31Z
• Authors: Brad N. Greenwood; Rachel R. Hardeman; Laura Huang; Aaron Sojourner
• Keywords: Concordance; White (mutation); Racial differences

Significance A large body of work highlights disparities in survival rates across Black and White newborns during childbirth. We posit that these differences may be ameliorated by racial concordance between the physician newborn patient. Findings suggest when are cared for physicians, mortality penalty they suffer, as compared with infants, is halved. Strikingly, effects appear to manifest more strongly complicated cases, hospitals deliver newborns. No such effect found among birthing mothers.