Committee to Aid Research to End Schizophrenia
Committee to Aid Research to End Schizophrenia
Ultimately, racial-ethnic disparities in health care will persist as long as there are inequalities in our society. Physicians, nonetheless, have the special opportunity and obligation as leaders within the health care community to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of patients from racial-ethnic minority groups. High-quality, empirically driven interventions may help physicians and other health care providers come one step closer to the goal of health equality.
Acknowledgments and disclosures
The Committee to Aid Research to End Schizophrenia (CARES) sponsored this study.
The authors report no competing interests.
At the time of the study, Ms. Mallinger was a student at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Dr. Lamberti is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Send correspondence to Ms. Mallinger in the care of Dr. Lamberti at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, 300 Crittenden Blvd., Box PSYCH, Rochester, NY 14642 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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