Filed under: Race War
From WhiteCoatRants:
Researchers looked at 375,000 emergency department visits over a period of 13 years. Of those visits, opioid prescribing was more likely for pain-related visits made by whites (31%) than by blacks (23%), Hispanics (24%), or Asians/others (28%). White patients in their study tended to be older, but they didn’t release that demographic data. Overall, though, the rate at which patients received some form of analgesic (narcotic and non-narcotic combined) was almost identical between the study groups.
Using this data, the researchers come to a conclusion that “The presence of differential opioid prescribing by race/ethnicity throughout the study period suggests that disparities in pain management persist in the emergency department.”
[This] study didn’t show anything about pain management. Your study showed a trend in lesser prescription of narcotics in non-whites. That’s it.
Does anyone know the difference between causality and correlation anymore? Society’s degenerating faster than I can watch!
