Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences thumbnail
Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans racial bias is related to false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites participants who endorsed these beliefs rated the black (vs. white) patient’s pain as lower and made less accurate treat
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  • Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans
  • racial bias is related to false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites
  • participants who endorsed these beliefs rated the black (vs. white) patient’s pain as lower and made less accurate treatment recommendations
  • individuals with at least some medical training hold and may use false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites to inform medical judgments, which may contribute to racial disparities in pain assessment and treatment
  • black patients were significantly less likely than white patients to receive analgesics for extremity fractures in the emergency room (57% vs. 74%), despite having similar self-reports of pain

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