JAMA Study Shows Racial Disparities In Emergency Department Pain Relief Prescriptions
Emergency department physicians are prescribing more narcotics to patients who say they have pain, but minority patients are less likely than whites to receive such drugs, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. [click link for full article]
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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on January 3rd, 2008