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Racial and ethnic inequities in healthcare include differences in management of pain in emergency department and pediatric settings. Investigators at two academic institutions conducted independent cohort studies of the assessment, treatment, and patients' experience of pain in postpartum women.
In one study, white patients had more-frequent documentation of pain assessments in the first 2 days after cesarean delivery and were less likely to rate their pain as severe compared with women of color. Black, Hispanic, and Asian women received less narcotic medication — and black women received fewer nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — in the first 24 hours after delivery compared with white women. In the other study, black and Hispanic women r…