Brian Bentzlin Begley, Katherine Sienna Cerniglia, Mones Mohammed Aboelatta, Lubna Begum, Grace Gilbert, Justin Mathew, Stephen Raymond Meixner, Corinna Catherine Franklin, Rey Natividad Ramirez
BACKGROUND: Patients should be prescribed medication based on their medical condition, without prejudice because of their race, gender, or primary language. However, previous research has shown that men are prescribed more medication than women, patients who are White are prescribed more medications than patients who are non-White, and English-speaking people are prescribed more medications than non-English-speaking patients. However, it is unclear whether these differences also occur in pediatric orthopaedic populations...
September 20, 2022: Clinical Orthopaedics and related Research