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The Opportunity for Medical Systems to Reduce Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Patients. J Med Syst 2015 Nov;39(11):178

Date

09/29/2015

Pubmed ID

26411930

DOI

10.1007/s10916-015-0355-7

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84942758915 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   28 Citations

Abstract

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people experience a variety of health care disparities, including higher rates of certain chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and HIV. The growing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) presents an important opportunity to optimize care for LGBTI individuals by routinely capturing in structured form patient sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI), as well as a patient's preferred name and pronoun. In addition to improving care provided to LGBTI patients, collection of structured SO/GI information will facilitate important public health data collection efforts that can be used to further reduce health care disparities in this underserved population.

Author List

Donald C, Ehrenfeld JM

Author

Jesse Ehrenfeld MD, MPH Sr Associate Dean, Director, Professor in the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Bisexuality
Data Collection
Delivery of Health Care
Electronic Health Records
Female
Health Status Disparities
Homosexuality, Female
Homosexuality, Male
Humans
Male
Sexuality
Transgender Persons