Clinicians Often Use Stigmatizing Language for Patients With OUD

Report
par
Anderson, Pauline

Date de publication

2024

Géographie

USA

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Oui

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Non

Évalué par des pairs

No

L’objectif

This is a report on a study which sought to identify how many healthcare workers use stigmatizing language when writing about people with opioid use disorder in their clinical notes.

Constatations/points à retenir

They found that 85% of clinicians use stigmatizing language in their notes. The report concludes that we should create a language processing AI that will autocorrect or flag these words for the clinicians.

Mots clés

About prescribers
Barriers and enablers
Hospitals
Stigma