ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2021
Association Between Race and Ethnicity with Intraoperative Analgesic Administration and Initial Recovery Room Pain Scores in Pediatric Patients: a Single-Center Study of 21,229 Surgeries.
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- Sedation and analgesia doses do not differ across demographic factors in pediatric cardiac surgery patients.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- A U.S. based survey of loan burden among anesthesia trainees and its impact on well-being.Frontiers in education · 2025Article
- Opioid administration across racial and ethnic groups for patients undergoing liver resection: are there disparities?Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2024Article
- Are There Racial Disparities in Perioperative Pain? A Retrospective Study of a Gynecological Surgery Cohort.Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · 2024Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Administration of General Anesthesia.Anesthesia and critical care (Houston, Tex.) · 2024Article
- Race/Ethnicity and Duration of Anesthesia for Pediatric Patients in the US: a Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Outcomes Among Newborns with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Racial Inequity in Pediatric Anesthesia.Current anesthesiology reports · 2023Review
- A step towards understanding disparities - linking race, ancestry, epigenetics and pain.Epigenomics · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionPerioperative pain may have deleterious effects for all patients. We aim to examine disparities in pain management for children in the perioperative period to understand whether any racial and ethnic groups are at increased risk of poor pain control.
methodsMedical records from children ≤ 18 years of age who underwent surgery from May 2014 to May 2018 were reviewed. The primary outcome was total intraoperative morphine equivalents. The secondary outcomes were intraoperative non-opioid analgesic administration and first conscious pain score. The exposure was race and ethnicity. The associations of race and ethnicity with outcomes of interest were modeled using linear or logistic regression, adjusted for preselected confounders and covariates. Bonferroni corrections were made for multiple comparisons.
resultsA total of 21,229 anesthetics were included in analyses. In the adjusted analysis, no racial and ethnic group received significantly more or less opioids intraoperatively than non-Hispanic (NH) whites. Asians, Hispanics, and Pacific Islanders were estimated to have significantly lower odds of receiving non-opioid analgesics than NH whites: odds ratio (OR) = 0.83 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.70, 0.97); OR = 0.84 (95% CI: 0.74, 0.97), and OR = 0.53 (95% CI: 0.33, 0.84) respectively. Asians were estimated to have significantly lower odds of reporting moderate-to-severe pain on awakening than NH whites: OR = 0.80 (95% CI: 0.66, 0.99).
conclusionsAlthough children of all races and ethnicities investigated received similar total intraoperative opioid doses, some were less likely to receive non-opioid analgesics intraoperatively. Asians were less likely to report moderate-severe pain upon awakening. Further investigation may delineate how these differences lead to disparate patient outcomes and are influenced by patient, provider, and system factors.
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