The Impact of Race on Analgesia Use Among Pediatric Emergency Department Patients

Overview

Journal J Pediatr

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2014 Jun 15

PMID 24928697

Citations 16

Authors

Irit R Rasooly

Peter M Mullins

Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi

John van den Anker

Jesse M Pines

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Abstract

We studied the effect of race on analgesia use in potentially pain-related pediatric emergency department visits using the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (2005-2010). There were independent patient- and hospital-level racial disparities when it came to the type of analgesia used, suggesting black children are treated differently even within hospitals with high numbers of black patients.

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