Black children less likely to get pain drugs for appendicitis

Race appears to affect the odds that a child or teen with appendicitis, a painful condition requiring surgery, will get pain medication, particularly opioid medication, according to a new study. Eric Fleegler, assistant professor of pediatrics, and Neil Schechter, associate professor of anaesthesia, both at Boston Children’s Hospital, co-authored an editorial accompanying the study.

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