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Mind the Gap: A handbook of clinical signs in Black and Brown skin

by PatientSafetyLearning Team

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Mind the Gap is a Handbook to raise awareness of how symptoms and signs can present differently on darker skin as well as highlighting the different language that needs to be used in descriptors.

The aim of this booklet is to educate students and essential allied health care professionals on the importance of recognising that certain clinical signs do not present the same on darker skin. This is something which is not commonly practised in medical textbooks. It is important that healthcare professionals are aware of these differences so that care of certain groups is not compromised.

Mind the Gap: A handbook of clinical signs in Black and Brown skin https://www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap
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    Sarah Paxman

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    The handbook is a brilliant piece of work. In any updated editions it would be great to have more photos of a range of different ethnicities and skin tones for NEONATAL JAUNDICE. This is an important risk to patient safety, and everyone working in maternity and neonatal services could really benefit from access to good colour photos of babies with jaundice to help improve early detection. Thank you!

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