What is Unconscious Bias? - The Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion
Human beings are hard-wired to make intuitive decisions about other people. We go about our daily lives making unconscious judgements that affect our attitudes and behaviours towards other people.
What does my headscarf mean to you? - Yassmin Abdel-Magied • TEDxSouthBank
What do you think when you look at this speaker? Well, think again. (And then again.) In this funny, honest, empathetic talk, Yassmin Abdel-Magied challenges us to look beyond our initial perceptions, and to open doors to new ways of supporting others.
How unconscious bias can discriminate against patients and affect their care by Kathy Oxtoby
Our assumptions, which we may not even be aware of, can lead to erroneous clinical decisions. More research, awareness, training, and diverse teams are needed to tackle this.
Unconscious Bias in Peer Review by Jane Onken, MD, MHS et al.
Even within the data-driven scientific community, implicit bias is present. As editors of scientific journals, it is our responsibility to ensure authors receive objective, fair, and equitable reviews that are free from inappropriate influences. Implicit bias has been shown to influence the peer-review process in general.
Older breast cancer undertreatment: unconscious bias to undertreat—potential role for the international geriatric radiotherapy group? by Nam P. Nguyen
The prevalence of breast cancer increases with age. Older breast cancer patients often present with locally advanced disease at presentation because mammography, which diagnosed early stage disease, is not recommended after the age of 75. In addition, they are often undertreated even when they are physically fit and have non-metastatic disease. As a result, survival is often poor. Physicians bias may be a factor in their undertreatment and lack of representation in prospective clinical trials. Physicians should be educated that chronological age is not a contraindication to curative treatment for older breast cancer patients. As a research group devoted to older cancer patients, women, and minorities, the International Geriatric Radiotherapy Group (IGRG) plans to conduct prospective trials to assess biomarkers for frailty, the controversial issue of mammography for older breast cancer patients, and the incorporation of frailty index for curative breast cancer treatment. The data obtained may help to decrease physician bias and to establish future guidelines for older breast cancer patients treatment.
Barts Health NHS Trust offers a one-day Cultural Intelligence (CQ) training course to help staff better understand, relate, and work with one another at Barts Health and beyond. The course aims to support clinicians in the NHS to gain knowledge and understanding of the issues around culture and health, and to equip them with the skills required to work effectively in a diverse environment.
The course is part of Barts Health NHS Trust's cultural intelligence training programme, which aims to evaluate the impact of cultural intelligence training on staff and patients.
The impact of stereotyping by NHS Leadership Academy.