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

According to HealthDay (9/14), “Transgender people have an elevated risk for chronic conditions versus their cisgender counterparts,” a report published in Health Affairs suggests. Investigators “found that disparities were documented between transgender and cisgender people across most conditions, with an elevated risk for all chronic conditions for transgender people versus their cisgender counterparts.”

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— “Elevated Risk for Chronic Conditions Found for Transgender People, HealthDay, September 14, 2021

Healio (9/14, Keenan) reports, “When used correctly, electroconvulsive therapy can be associated with lower all-cause mortality,” suggests “the first nationwide cohort study using Medicare claims data.”

Psychiatric News reports research indicates that “patients aged 65 or older who received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) while hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder” appeared “to have a lower rate of death in the year following discharge than similar patients who did not receive ECT while hospitalized.” Researchers arrived at this conclusion in a study that “included 10,460 ECT patients and 31,160 control patients who were matched based on such characteristics as age, gender, and number of psychiatric hospitalizations in the previous year.” The findingswere published online Sept. 10 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Electroconvulsive therapy correlates with lower all-cause mortality “Julie S Keenan, Healio, September 14, 2021

NPR (9/9, Hanson) reports a recent Center for American Progress report found “that nearly half of transgender people have experienced mistreatment at the hands of a medical provider.” Study researchers said transgender people are systemically underserved by the U.S. medical system.

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— “The Pervasiveness Of Transgender Health Care Discrimination “Brit Hanson, NPR, September 9, 2021

Healio (9/13, Gramigna) reports, “Opioid overdose death rates increased among non-Hispanic Black individuals between 2018 and 2019, despite having leveled off overall,” investigators concluded after evaluating “trends in opioid overdose deaths according to race/ethnicity between 2018 and 2019 across 67…communities in Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts and Ohio, for which they determined opioid overdose death rates per 100,000 adult residents using state death certificate records.” The findings were published online Sept. 9 in the American Journal of Public Health.

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— “Opioid overdose death rate increases 40% among Black individuals “Joe Gramigna, Healio, September 13, 2021