Defining racial and ethnic disparities in pain management

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1859-1870

  Mossey, Jana M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 79959552869     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-1770-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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