Racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric anesthesia: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Health disparities continue to affect racial and ethnic marginalized obstetric patients disproportionally with increased risk of Cesarean delivery and pregnancy-related death. Yet, the literature on what influences such disparities in obstetric anesthesia service and its clinical outcomes is less well known. We set out to describe racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric anesthesia during the peripartum period in the USA via a scoping review of the recent literature.

Source

Using the Institute of Medicine's definition of disparities, we searched the National Library of Medicine's PubMed/Medline, Embase, Web of Science, APA PsycINFO, and Google Scholar for articles published between 1 January 2000 and 30 June 2022 to identify literature on racial and ethnic disparit

SUBMITTER: Lee W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10370345 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature