San Diego—Patients of color and individuals on Medicaid have consistently lower odds for receiving neuraxial anesthesia and peripheral nerve blocks than their counterparts.
Well founded in other specialties of medicine, care disparities that are based on race and socioeconomic status also exist in the delivery of anesthesia care, new research has shown.
“Although we know from other medical specialties that disparities do exist, anesthesia doesn’t have much of a track