PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dipesh P Gopal
AU  - Ula Chetty
AU  - Patrick O'Donnell
AU  - Camille Gajria
AU  - Jodie Blackadder-Weinstein
TI  - Implicit bias in healthcare: clinical practice, research and decision making
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2020-0233
DP  - 2021 Mar 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 40--48
VI  - 8
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/1/40.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/1/40.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2021 Mar 01; 8
AB  - Bias is the evaluation of something or someone that can be positive or negative, and implicit or unconscious bias is when the person is unaware of their evaluation. This is particularly relevant to policymaking during the coronavirus pandemic and racial inequality highlighted during the support for the Black Lives Matter movement. A literature review was performed to define bias, identify the impact of bias on clinical practice and research as well as clinical decision making (cognitive bias). Bias training could bridge the gap from the lack of awareness of bias to the ability to recognise bias in others and within ourselves. However, there are no effective debiasing strategies. Awareness of implicit bias must not deflect from wider socio-economic, political and structural barriers as well ignore explicit bias such as prejudice.