Respectful ethnic profiling in the care sector

Achterbergh, L.; Suurmond, J.; Linthorst, G.E.

Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 163

2019


ISSN/ISBN: 1876-8784
PMID: 30875161
Document Number: 699689
Physicians sometimes use ethnicity as part of their clinical reasoning. Using ethnicity can sometimes, however, lead to bias and may lead to discrimination or racial discrimination. In this article we discuss some examples of wrongful medical profiling based on ethnicity, but also show how ethnic profiling can be performed respectfully.

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