Advance Directive Completion Among Black Adults Within a Community-Based Integrated Health Care System.

ObjectivesThe study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of advance directive (AD) completion among Black adults vs non-Hispanic White adults within Kaiser Permanente Northern California integrated health system that includes access to outpatient advance care planning (ACP) specialists and to identify medical services utilization patterns and societal factors that could influence ACP engagement. DesignThe study was carried out through retrospective analysis of electronic health record data of active Kaiser Permanente Northern California members from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2017, who were age 55 and older, and represented 572,466 active members, of which 11.7% were Black adults.

Discovering and Reflecting on Bias: A Discussion about Challenges and Benefits of Culturally Centered Patient Care with Women Physicians of the East Bay.

Implicit or unconscious bias is a lens through which we see our world based on our past experiences and learned stereotypes. Within health care, this lens of bias has typically had a negative impact on patient care, particularly for marginalized populations. We sat down with 3 physicians within Kaiser Permanente East Bay to learn about their personal experiences of bias in patient care.