The effect of racial and gender concordance between physicians and patients on the assessment of hospitalist performance: a pilot study

Table 1 TAISCH Scores Based on Gender Concordance and Discordance

Provider/Patient Dyads	Mean (SE) TAISCH Scores	P-value comparing the specific dyad score to the overall mean^a	Number of patients	Number of providers
Examining Gender Concordance
Female/ Female	3.9 (0.1)	0.58	102	15
Female/ Male	3.8 (0.1)	0.89	77	15
Male/ Female	3.7 (0.1)	0.16	143	19
Male/ Male	3.9 (0.1)	0.40	115	17
Examining Racial Concordance
AA/AA	3.5 (0.1)	0.01	39	7
AA/ Caucasian	3.8 (0.1)	0.76	83	7
Caucasian/ AA	4.2 (0.1)	0.05	17	5
Caucasian/ Caucasian	4.0 (0.1)	0.28	32	5
Other/AA	3.9 (0.1)	0.65	83	19
Other/Caucasian	3.8 (0.1)	0.88	174	22

The categories AA/Other, Other/Other and Caucasian/Other were omitted as the number of patients belonging to the ‘Other’ category constituted of just 1.4% of the total sample
AA African American, Other Asian and Hispanic
^a The overall mean TAISCH score, as these 437 patients assessed their hospitalist provider was 3.8 (0.60)

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