BACKGROUND: Although evidence suggests that racial and ethnic minority (REM) patients
receive inadequate pain management in the acute care setting, it remains unclear whether …

Background: Despite the critical role that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provides in the
health care system, racial/ethnic treatment disparities in EMS remain relatively unexamined …

BACKGROUND: Pain management is an important part of prehospital care, yet few studies
have addressed the effects of age, sex, race, or pain severity on prehospital pain …

Despite the many advances in emergency and prehospital medicine, racial, and ethnic
inequities in care persist. 1 In the emergency department, ethnic, and racial minorities …

Objective Disparities have been observed in the treatment of pain in emergency department
patients. However, few studies have evaluated such disparities in emergency medical …

Introduction: While prior research has identified racial disparities in prehospital analgesia for
traumatic pain, little is known about non-traumatic pain. Using a national prehospital dataset …

Objective This review aims to quantify the effect of minority status on analgesia use for acute
pain management in US Emergency Department (ED) settings. Methods We used the …

Importance Racial and ethnic disparities in pain management have been characterized in
many hospital-based settings. Painful traumatic injuries are a common reason for 911 …

Background Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in effective pain management have been
well-documented across healthcare settings. However, discrepancies in the treatment of …

OBJECTIVE: Research on how race affects access to analgesia in the emergency
department (ED) has yielded conflicting results. We assessed whether patient race affects …