Race may play role in health care experience

Lex Alexander, News & Record

- Comparing the way people of different races and incomes get prescriptions may sound like an obscure bit of research.

But in Greensboro, that study has been a pilot program for a National Institutes of Health research project that will distribute tens of millions of dollars nationwide.

That larger study seeks to identify how factors such as race, sex, income, insurance status and language may interfere with people getting the health care they need. Such factors are thought to contribute to higher disease and death rates among some minority groups.

The agency wants researchers to find ways to improve communication with patients and spread those methods quickly, said Dr. Sam Cykert , chief of the internal medicine teaching program at Moses Cone Hospital.

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