Trends in Racial Inequalities in the Administration of Opioid and Non-opioid Pain Medication in US Emergency Departments Across 1999-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite initiatives to eradicate racial inequalities in pain treatment, there is no clear picture on whether this has translated to changes in clinical practice.

Objective

To determine whether racial disparities in the receipt of pain medication in the emergency department have diminished over a 22-year period from 1999 to 2020.

Design

We used data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, an annual, cross-sectional probability sample of visits to emergency departments of non-federal general and short-stay hospitals in the USA.

Patients

Pain-related visits to the ED by Black or White patients.

Main measures

Prescriptions for opioid and non-opioid analgesics.

Key results

A total of 203,854 of all sampled 625,433 ED visit

SUBMITTER: Thompson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10853122 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature