ReviewTrauma surgery & acute care open2025
Examining our lens: how bias heightens disparities in trauma research.
Review in Trauma surgery & acute care open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Adopting common data elements (CDEs) for the National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR): the results of a social determinants of health Delphi survey.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2026Article
- Summit on the Advancement of Focused Equity Research in Trauma (SAFER-Trauma).Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Article
- Unveiling the economic value of equitable care for the traumatically injured: is it cost-effective to decrease trauma disparities?Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Review
- Innovative approaches to equity research in trauma: current work and aspirations from the Summit on the Advancement of Focused Equity Research in Trauma (SAFER-Trauma).Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Review
- Trauma care disparities: is equity the key? Output from SAFER-Trauma.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Review
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Abstract
Trauma research is an expansive discipline that informs injury prevention, best practices in care, and novel interventions. However, implicit bias, or the unconscious stereotypical beliefs about groups of people, can have profound implications for traumatic injury research. Several forms of implicit bias can emerge in trauma research, which deepens existing disparities based on race or ethnicity, sex, ability status, socioeconomic status, and other factors. This paper reviews how implicit bias affects the development of research and the application of findings, potentially leading to suboptimal care and misdirected preventive strategies in trauma. We present the recent dialogue and progress on implicit bias in research at the Summit on the Advancement of Focused Equity Research in Trauma (SAFER-Trauma) conference, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded assembly of multiple disciplines which was convened to tackle the challenges involved in addressing disparities in traumatic injury. Through this review, we seek to generate momentum for action toward reducing implicit bias and establishing comprehensive equity-focused standards of trauma research and practice.
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