The ethical implications of racial disparities in pain: Are some of us more equal?

Pain Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-4

  Lebovits, Allen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CODEINE; MORPHINE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; OPIATE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANALGESIA; ASSOCIATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PAIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PAIN; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; PAIN;

EID: 14944385572     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2005.05013.x     Document Type: Editorial

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