Racial Inequality in Prescription Opioid Receipt — Role of Individual Health Systems
Author(s) -
Nancy E. Morden,
Deanna Chyn,
Andrew T. A. Wood,
Ellen Meara
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmsa2034159
Subject(s) - receipt , medical prescription , inequality , opioid , racial bias , medicine , psychology , racism , sociology , computer science , nursing , mathematics , gender studies , receptor , world wide web , mathematical analysis
Historically, the receipt of prescription opioids has differed among racial groups in the United States. Research has not sufficiently explored the contribution of individual health systems to these differences by examining within-system prescription opioid receipt according to race.
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