Racial discrimination in pain management*
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The vulnerability of certain races and ethnicities may be worsened by the subjectivity of pain. So, this study aimed at identifying whether there has been racial discrimination in pain control by health professionals. CONTENTS: This is a literature review and queried databases were: PubMed/Medline, LILACS, SciELO, Cochrane, EMBASE, SCOPUS and psycINFO with keywords in English and Portuguese: pain-dor and race-raça or ethnic-etnia, analgesiaanalgesia, prejudice/discrimination-discriminação, prescriptions drug-prescrição médica. From 3216 articles, 45 were selected. Five were included after manual search, in a total of 50 articles. CONCLUSION: No study was carried out in Brazil and 96% are from the United States. Studies are of the cross sectional and cohort type. Most researched races/ethnicities were black and white, followed by Hispanic and Asian. Most common outcomes were: access to treatment and analgesic prescription. Racial discrimination was identified in 74% of studies, being blacks the most discriminated race.
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