Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Ann Surg. 2022 Dec 1;276(6):e646-e648. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005516. Epub 2022 Jun 28.
Although pain care decisions unfold as a negotiation between patients and surgeons, previous research has examined patient-level and provider-level factors contributing to racial disparities in surgical pain care in isolation. We call for changes in the investigations of such racial disparities at the levels of conceptualization, research design, analysis, and research team composition.
尽管疼痛护理决策是在患者和外科医生之间进行协商的结果,但之前的研究仅分别考察了导致手术疼痛护理方面种族差异的患者层面和提供者层面的因素。我们呼吁在概念化、研究设计、分析和研究团队组成等层面上改变此类种族差异的研究方式。