Ensuring medication safety for consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds: the need to address unconscious bias within health systems.
Chauhan A, Walpola RL. Ensuring medication safety for consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds: the need to address unconscious bias within health systems. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021;33(4):mzab145. doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzab145.
Health care decision making and delivery are vulnerable to unconscious bias. This commentary discusses strategies in place to address unconscious bias as it affects medication safety. The authors suggest a focus on engaging ethnic minority consumers as partners to design improvement programs to enhance medication delivery.