Racial Disparities Across Provider Specialties in Opioid Prescriptions Dispensed to Medicaid Beneficiaries with Chronic Noncancer Pain

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 633-640

  Ringwalt, Chris ^a   Roberts, Andrew W ^a,b   Gugelmann, Hallam ^d   Skinner, Asheley Cockrell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Pain; Opioids; Prescriptions; Primary Care

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLACK PERSON; BURN; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC NONCANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; PHARMACIST; PRESCRIPTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALGESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHRONIC PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926214222     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pme.12555     Document Type: Article

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