Pediatric care for non-white children is universally worse across U.S.
Policy reform is urgently needed to address disparities, study authors say
- Pervasive racial inequities exist among neonatal care, emergency medicine, surgery, developmental disabilities, mental health care and palliative care
- Strongest evidence of disparities was in pain management
- White patients received more painkillers, antibiotics, IV fluids and diagnostic imaging, etc., even when not justified on medical grounds
- Differences in care quality occurred regardless of health insurance status
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