Healio (9/14, Weldon) reports, “Black pediatric patients are more likely to be physically restrained in EDs than their white peers,” researchers concluded in “a cross-sectional study of 551,740 pediatric visits to 11 different EDs within an unidentified New England health care system between 2013 and 2020, including 532 (0.1%) that had an associated physical restraint order.” Researchers found “Black children were almost twice as likely to be physically restrained during ED visits compared with white peers.” The data were published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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— “Black pediatric patients more likely to be restrained in EDs than white peers, study finds “Rose Weldon, Healio, September 14, 2021