Race, ethnicity, and management of pain from long-bone fractures: A prospective study of two academic urban emergency departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 589-597

  Bijur, Polly ^a   Bérard, Anick ^a,b   Esses, David ^a   Calderon, Yvette ^a   Gallagher, E John ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

African American; Analgesia; Disparities; Fractures; Hispanic; Opioid analgesia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 56849118131     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00149.x     Document Type: Article

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