Racial and ethnic disparities in the treatment of chronic pain

ME Morales, RJ Yong - Pain Medicine, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective To summarize the current literature on disparities in the treatment of chronic pain.
Methods We focused on studies conducted in the United States and published from 2000 …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of injustice: what we (do not) know about racialized disparities in pain

VA Mathur, Z Trost, MO Ezenwa, JA Sturgeon… - Pain, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Almost 20 years ago, leaders in pain disparities research challenged pain scientists and
clinicians to intervene and advocate for the elimination of inequitable pain treatment based …

[HTML][HTML] CDC clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids for pain—United States, 2022

D Dowell, KR Ragan, CM Jones… - MMWR …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those
prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged≥ 18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for …

[HTML][HTML] Racial inequality in prescription opioid receipt—role of individual health systems

NE Morden, D Chyn, A Wood… - New England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Historically, the receipt of prescription opioids has differed among racial groups
in the United States. Research has not sufficiently explored the contribution of individual …

[HTML][HTML] Peeking into a black box, the fairness and generalizability of a MIMIC-III benchmarking model

E Röösli, S Bozkurt, T Hernandez-Boussard - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
As artificial intelligence (AI) makes continuous progress to improve quality of care for some
patients by leveraging ever increasing amounts of digital health data, others are left behind …

Confronting racism in pain research: A call to action

CA Morais, EN Aroke, JE Letzen, CM Campbell… - The journal of pain, 2022 - Elsevier
Racism is an established health determinant across the world. In this 3-part series, we argue
that a disregard of how racism manifests in pain research practices perpetuates pain …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing bias: artificial intelligence in cardiovascular medicine

E Tat, DL Bhatt, MG Rabbat - The Lancet Digital Health, 2020 - thelancet.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) is providing opportunities to transform cardiovascular medicine. As
the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, cardiovascular disease is prevalent …

Racial/ethnic differences in prescription opioid misuse and heroin use among a national sample, 1999–2018

MS Schuler, TL Schell, EC Wong - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective To characterize racial/ethnic differences in past-year prescription opioid misuse
and heroin use. Methods Data on 1,117,086 individuals age 12 and older were from the …

Write it like you see it: Detectable differences in clinical notes by race lead to differential model recommendations

H Adam, MY Yang, K Cato, I Baldini, C Senteio… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Clinical notes are becoming an increasingly important data source for machine learning
(ML) applications in healthcare. Prior research has shown that deploying ML models can …

Trends and characteristics of potentially preventable emergency department visits among patients with cancer in the US

AA Tabriz, K Turner, YR Hong… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance An initial step to reducing emergency department (ED) visits among patients with
cancer is to identify the characteristics of patients visiting the ED and examine which of those …