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Physician Self-identified Race and Opioid Prescription Practices in Upper Extremity Injuries in the Pediatric Emergency Department by Joseph Langham; Sherita Holmes; Janet Figueroa; Srikant Iyer; Sarah Lazarus; Scott Gillespie; Carmen Sulton is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Physician Self-identified Race and Opioid Prescription Practices in Upper Extremity Injuries in the Pediatric Emergency Department about?

Background Minority children have been shown to receive fewer opioid analgesics for acute pain. Objective Assess if both White and non-White physicians prescribe fewer opioids to non-White children presenting to the pediatric emergency department (PED) with upper extremity (UE) fractures. Methods Patients with acute UE fractures were evaluated. Attending physicians provided their self-identified race and consented to analysis of their opioid prescribing practices. Primary outcome was receipt of an opioid prescription at discharge. Bivariate analyses measured the association between patient race and receipt of an opioid prescription; further analysis evaluated the effect of physician race on prescription practices. Generalized linear models measured these associations while controlling for confounders. Results Thirty-four percent of eligible patients (2754/8155) were discharged with an opioid prescription. There was no statistically significant difference in odds of being discharged with an opioid prescription for non-Hispanic Black (NHB) compared to non-Hispanic White (NHW) patients. There was no statistically significant difference in odds of prescribing opioids by both White phys

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Author

Joseph Langham; Sherita Holmes; Janet Figueroa; Srikant Iyer; Sarah Lazarus; Scott Gillespie; Carmen Sulton

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Physical Sciences)