The Effect of Race/Ethnicity and Desirable Social Characteristics on Physicians' Decisions to Prescribe Opioid Analgesics

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1239-1248

  Tamayo Sarver, Joshua H ^a,g   Dawson, Neal V ^a   Hinze, Susan W ^b   Cydulka, Rita K ^c   Wigton, Robert S ^d   Albert, Jeffrey M ^a   Ibrahim, Said A ^e   Baker, David W ^f  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Analgesia prescription; Communication; Emergency department; Race ethnicity; Usual source of care

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0242665655     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00494-9     Document Type: Article

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