Annals of Family Medicine 6:198-205 (2008)
© 2008 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.821
Understanding Concordance in Patient-Physician Relationships: Personal and Ethnic Dimensions of Shared Identity
Richard L. Street, Jr, PhD1,2,
Kimberly J. OMalley, PhD3,
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH4 and
Paul Haidet, MD, MPH2
1 Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station
2 The Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
3 Pearson Educational Measurement, Austin, Texas
4 The Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

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Figure 1. Racial concordance and patients perceptions of perceived personal similarity to the physician.
a,b Means with different superscripts were signiflcantly different at P<.04.
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Figure 2. Racial concordance and patients perceptions of perceived ethnic similarity to the physician.
a,b Means with different superscripts were signiflcantly different at P<.001.
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