The social determinants of health (SDH) have broad reaching implications throughout all areas of medicine, including perioperative care. While seemingly far removed from the more social elements of medicine, evidence shows that anesthesiology is not immune to the ways in which bias, at both individual and systemic levels, influence patient outcomes. Reflection on the ways in which the SDH, including provider bias, shape perioperative care allows for the identification of points of intervention to improve health equity, both to improve individual patient outcomes as well as a step towards systemic change.
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