Racial Disparities in Pain Management of Children With Appendicitis in Emergency Departments.

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Racial disparities in use of analgesia in emergency departments have been previously documented. Further work to understand the causes of these disparities must be undertaken, which can then help inform the development of interventions to reduce and eradicate racial disparities in health care provision.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): JAMA Pediatr

Title: JAMA pediatrics

ISSN (Electronic): 2168-6211

ISSN (Print): 2168-6203

Publication date (Electronic): Nov 2015

Volume: 169

Issue: 11

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[1 ] Children's National Health System, Washington, DC2Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC3Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sc.

[2 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento5Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento.

[3 ] Milken Institute School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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Publisher Item ID: 2441797 Mid ID: NIHMS775148

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.1915

PMC ID: 4829078

PubMed ID: 26366984

SO-VID: 83d5b2af-0908-497f-8f55-f63e16c68526

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