Why the study?
Disparities in patient care and outcomes are well-documented across medicine but have received comparatively less attention in anesthesiology.
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Design
Narrative review
May warrant clinician attention to racial disparities in anesthesiology; leaves open effectiveness of proposed solutions.
Disparities in patient care and outcomes are well-documented in medicine but have received comparatively less attention in anesthesiology. Those disparities linked to racial and ethnic identity are pervasive, with compelling evidence in operative anesthesiology, obstetric anesthesiology, pain medicine, and critical care. This narrative review presents an overview of disparities in perioperative patient care that is grounded in historical context followed by potential solutions for mitigating disparities and inequities.
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Mergler et al. (2023) studied this question.
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