A Gender Gap In Pain Management
Filed Under (Pain Medicine) by David on 21-12-2009
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A patient’s sex seems to matter when it comes to the type of analgesia given, according to a study from Monash University, Victoria, British Columbia, and The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Of 3,357 patients transported to the hospital by ambulance, 1,766 reported pain; 50% of the patients were women. Their median initial pain score was 6 on a verbal scale of 0 to 10. The patients received analgesia in roughly the same proportions, with no significant difference between the sexes.

