• Br J Anaesth · May 2024

    Editorial

    Examining disparities in regional anaesthesia and pain medicine.

    • Uchenna O Umeh.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: umehu@hss.edu.
    • Br J Anaesth. 2024 May 1; 132 (5): 103310401033-1040.

    AbstractIn high-resource countries, health disparities exist in both treatment approaches and health outcomes. Race and ethnicity can serve as proxies for other socioeconomic factors and social determinants of health such as income, education, social support, and residential neighbourhood, which strongly influence health outcomes and disparities. In regional anaesthesia and pain medicine, disparities exist across several surgical specialties including obstetrics, paediatrics, and orthopaedic surgery. Understanding these disparities will facilitate development of solutions aimed at eliminating disparities at the patient, physician/provider, and healthcare system levels.Copyright © 2024 British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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