December 7, 2020
Female Physicians Spend More Time in EHR Than Males
MONDAY, Dec. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Female physicians spend more minutes per day in the electronic health record (EHR) than their male counterparts, according to a research letter published online Dec. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Sarah D. Tait, from the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues examined the...
Underrepresentation of Minorities in Clinical Trials Problematic
Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Lack Racial Diversity Investigators report that although 22% of prostate cancer diagnoses take place in non-Hispanic Black men, more than 96% of participants in prostate cancer clinical trials are non-Hispanic white men. That was the conclusion published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention. Worse, enrollment of African American men in prostate...
Black Men Experience More Prostate Cancer Treatment Regret
According to a study published in The Journal of Urology, Black men with prostate cancer suffer worse decisional regret than non Black men. The study, conducted by the Cleveland Clinic and led by Dr. Molly E. DeWitt Foy, took a closer look at sources of regret with a focus on racial disparities among 1,113 patients...