Association of Patient Race and Ethnicity With Differences in Opioid Prescribing by Primary Care Physicians for Older Adults With New Low Back Pain

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: This cross-sectional study found that from 2007 to 2014, primary care physicians prescribed opioids for new low back pain more often to White patients than to patients of racial and ethnic minority groups. These results suggest that there may have been unequal treatment of pain by physicians when less was known about the morbidity associated with opioid use.PMID:35977182 | PMC:PMC8796941 | DOI:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.2333
Source: Pain Physician - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Source Type: research