Journal of general internal medicine
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Black people are more likely to have hypertension and report lower quality of care than White people. Patient-provider race concordance could improve perceived quality of care, potentially lessening disparities. ⋯ Older Black patients perceived greater quality of care if their providers were also Black.
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Perceived discrimination and medical mistrust are barriers to care that impact both individual and population health. ⋯ Perceived discrimination in healthcare and medical mistrust are prevalent at the national scale, with racial and ethnic groups of color bearing the brunt. System-wide efforts are needed to improve health equity for marginalized patient populations.
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections and injection drug use have concurrently increased in the last decade. Evidence supports simultaneously treating chronic HCV and opioid use disorder (OUD) with medication. Kentucky is a hard-hit state for both conditions that has undertaken policy and practice efforts to increase access to both types of medications. ⋯ Gaps in HCV treatment among Kentucky Medicaid recipients with OUD were pervasive. Despite evidence supporting HCV-OUD co-treatment, patients receiving MOUD were significantly less likely to receive curative HCV treatment.