Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Local Anesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Repair

Despite ongoing efforts to address inequality in the US healthcare system, there are still considerable racial disparities in access to care modalities that can affect clinical outcomes.1 Most studies of racial and ethnic disparities in surgery have focused on access to new surgical techniques or devices (such as robotic and laparoscopic surgery), or on biases that affect diagnosis and quality of care. Few studies in the surgical literature have focused on disparities in access to anesthesia modalities and how this can affect postoperative outcomes.

Source: Journal of Surgical Research - June 1, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jennie Meier, Audrey Stevens, Miles Berger, Timothy P. Hogan, Joan Reisch, C. Munro Cullum, Simon C. Lee, Celette Sugg Skinner, Herbert Zeh, Cynthia J. Brown, Courtney J. Balentine Tags: Association for Academic Surgery Source Type: research