16. Racial Bias in Pain Treatment

Jan 22, 2020

Join Leonore Okwara, MPH as she discusses racial bias and pain treatment.

www.leonoreokwara.com

References mentioned:

1. Washington, H. A. (2006). Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. New York: Doubleday.
2. Nonwhite patients get less pain relief in U.S. emergency rooms

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.physiciansweekly.com/nonwhite-patients-get-less/amp/

3. Effort to Control Opioids in Emergency Medicine Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients in Pain: 

https://khn.org/news/effort-to-control-opioids-in-emergency-medicine-leaves-some-sickle-cell-patients-in-pain/

4. Center for Disease Control Sickle Cell Data: 

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/data.html

5. Is Bias Keeping Female Minority Patients from Getting Proper Care for Their Pain: 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/is-bias-keeping-female-minority-patients-from-getting-proper-care-for-their-pain/2019/07/26/9d1b3a78-a810-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html

6. Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/  

7. Education to Identify and Combat Racial Bias in Pain Treatment:

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/education-identify-and-combat-racial-bias-pain-treatment/2015-03

8. Equal Status Contact: 

https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov01/contact