Racial and Ethnic Health Services Disparities in Pediatric Anesthesia Practice: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric anesthesia health services could result in minority children being at increased risk of poor outcomes, such as pain, anxiety, or over-exposure to medications. Yet, a comprehensive understanding of the literature on such disparities does not exist to date. The objective of this study is to describe health services disparities in pediatric anesthetic care in the pre-, intra-, or post-operative period by synthesizing current literature. We searched the National Library of Medicine's PubMed/Medline, Embase, and Web of Science for articles published between January 1, 2007, and May 9, 2020, to identify literature on racial and ethnic health services disparities in pediatric anesthesia. We used the Institute of Medicine's definition of disparities. Heal

SUBMITTER: Rosenbloom JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7736257 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature