Racial/Ethnic Differences in Physician Distrust in the United States
Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE,
Karima L. Ravenell, MS,
Suzanne McMurphy, PhD and
Mary Putt, ScD
At the time of the study, Katrina Armstrong, Karima L. Ravenell, and Suzanne McMurphy were with the Department of Medicine and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Mary Putt and Katrina Armstrong were with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Phialdelphia.
FIGURE 1—Geographic variation in distrust scores (means and 95% confidence intervals [CIs]), among Whites (a), Blacks (b), and Hispanics (c): Community Tracking Study, 19981999.
Note. The means and CIs are plotted on a natural log scale because this is the basis of the Poisson model. The lower axis indicates the equivalent values on the linear scale. Because of the conversion from the log scale, the intervals on the linear axis are not evenly spaced.