Author: Euronews

In emergency departments, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication, a bias that puts them at higher risk for negative outcomes, a new study has found. ADVERTISEMENTFemale patients are less likely to be prescribed pain medication compared to male patients under similar conditions in emergency departments, a new study has found.Researchers from the US and Israel analysed over 21,000 patient records in the two countries. They noted that women are prescribed fewer pain relief medications for both opioids and non-opioids than male patients. Their findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS).This discrepancy spans…

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