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- Steven L Bernstein, E John Gallagher, Lisa Cabral, and Polly Bijur.
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Monteflore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA. steven.bernstein@yale.edu
- Pain Med. 2009 Jan 1; 10 (1): 106-10.
ObjectiveTo determine whether race or ethnicity affect baseline description of pain by patients with suspected long-bone fracture.DesignSecondary analysis of data from an observational study of patients age 18-55 in two urban emergency departments.Outcome MeasuresPatients rated their pain using an 11-point scale, where 0 represents no pain, and 10 represents the worst possible pain.ResultsOf 838 patients, 49% were Hispanic, 29% African American, and 22% White. Mean baseline pain scores were, respectively, 8.2, 8.1, and 7.7. In multivariate analysis, pair-wise comparisons showed no significant differences in pain self-report.ConclusionsEthnoracial oligoanalgesia cannot be explained by differences in baseline pain severity.
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