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Race and ethnicity do not affect baseline self-report of pain severity in patients with suspected long-bone fractures.

OBJECTIVE
To determine whether race or ethnicity affect baseline description of pain by patients with suspected long-bone fracture.


DESIGN
Secondary analysis of data from an observational study of patients age 18-55 in two urban emergency departments.


OUTCOME MEASURES
Patients rated their pain using an 11-point scale, where 0 represents no pain, and 10 represents the worst possible pain.


RESULTS
Of 838 patients, 49% were Hispanic, 29% African American, and 22% White. Mean baseline pain scores were, respectively, 8.2, 8.1, and 7.7. In multivariate analysis, pair-wise comparisons showed no significant differences in pain self-report.


CONCLUSIONS
Ethnoracial oligoanalgesia cannot be explained by differences in baseline pain severity.