There is a significant gap between the quality of care the US health care system is capable of achieving and the quality of care it currently delivers. Rather than being the consequence of individual providers' actions or inadequacies, gaps in the quality of care are largely due to the failure of health care organizations to incorporate known improvement measures into the process of care.
The healthcare professionals can help equalize the unequal partnership between the adult patient and the provider by using preventive care services and promoting communication that can be directed to an institutional culture that normalizes appropriate assertive responses to stereotyping and ratifying adult patient’s life experience through health care personnel training. With this, they can educate both adult patient and the provider to become more mindful of cues that induce stereotypical thinking.
