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Black Lives Matter In The ER: Black Kids With Appendicitis Undertreated With Opioid Pain Meds

David Kroll, FORBES   (Forbes) โ€“ Black children were more than half as likely as white children to be given opioid pain medicine when arriving in U.S. emergency departments with moderate-to-severe abdominal pain due to appendicitis, even when corrected for insurance status and other confounding variables. The researchers did not find the same disparity between white and Hispanic children, according to […]

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