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Racial disparities, including decreased hospice utilization, lower quality symptom management, and poor-quality end-of-life care have been well documented in Black Americans. Improving health equity and access to high-quality serious illness care is a national palliative care (PC) priority. Accomplishing these goals requires clinician reflection, engagement, and large-scale change in clinical practice and health-related policies. In this article, we provide an overview of key concepts that underpin racism in health care, discuss common serious illness disparities in Black Americans, and propose steps to promote the delivery of antiracist PC.

Citation: Jones, K. F., Laury, E., Sanders, J. J., Starr, L. T., Rosa, W. E., Booker, S. Q., Wachterman, M., Jones, C. A., Hickman, S., Merlin, J. S., & Meghani, S. H. (2022). Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans. Journal of palliative medicine, 25(3), 479–487. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0502

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