Black children with acute appendicitis -- a clearly painful
emergency -- are less likely than white children to get painkillers in
the emergency room, researchers reported Monday.
And nearly as troubling, only about half of any
of the kids got painkillers, even though they're strongly recommended in
cases of appendicitis, the researchers found.
"Black patients with moderate pain were less
likely to receive any analgesia, and black patients with severe pain
were less likely to be treated with opioids," Dr. Monika Goyal of the
Children's National Health System in Washington and colleagues wrote in
the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Pediatrics.
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