The Authors’ Own Words: Barriers to Patient-Centered Care with African-American Patients that Use Drugs: A Social construction of the HIV care visit

The Authors’ Own Words: We ask authors to describe their impressions regarding the implications of their accepted work, how their findings will change practice, and what is noteworthy about the work.

Barriers to Patient-Centered Care with African-American Patients that Use Drugs: A Social construction of the HIV care visit

Suzanne Carlberg-Racich, MSPH, PhD & Lindsey Roden, MPH

Substance Abuse Vol. 38, Iss. 2, 2017

“Creating a collaborative patient-provider relationship is critical to facilitating healthy patient outcomes and mitigating the risk of provider burnout. HIV-positive, African-American patients who use drugs face additional barriers in creating and maintaining a collaborative relationship with their providers. This research exposes both patient and provider-level barriers to provide a conceptual framework of the HIV care visit. This framework may serve as a foundation for addressing critical barriers and integrating patient-centered care, to promote positive outcomes.”