A review of racial/ethnic disparities in pediatric trauma care, treatment, and outcomes
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Health disparities are an increasingly researched topic in the United States. Evidence of disparities found across the spectrum of health care includes pediatric patients. The purpose of this review is to comprehensively summarize disparities among pediatric trauma patients, evaluating both emergency department and hospital treatment and outcomes. Multiple studies describe disparities in a variety of areas of trauma care including emergency department, radiology, surgery, abuse evaluation, and discharge rehabilitation. More concerning, multiple studies report disparities in length of stay, disability, recidivism, and mortality. This review also highlights several gaps in disparity research including specialty care, inclusion of all racial/ethnic groups, and geographic differences. Few of the reviewed studies described disparity interventions; however, research regarding abuse evaluations showed that care guidelines diminished disparity. Trauma care, a routinized patient service, is subject to existing care guidelines and quality improvement programs, and may be the ideal health care setting for disparity intervention. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Study type review, level V.
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- Titre Crossref
- A review of racial/ethnic disparities in pediatric trauma care, treatment, and outcomes
- Date Crossref
- 01/03/2019
- Éditeur
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
- Type
- journal-article
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University of Minnesota Department of Surgery (M.B.L. pays non établi dans la noticeUniversité ou école supérieure
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Department of Surgery (M.B.L. — University of Minnesota, Submitted: July 12 et Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text, avec 1 autre affiliation.
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