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Black or Hispanic kids receive less medical imaging than white kids – EurekAlert

Large study publishing in JAMA Network Open shows Black and Hispanic children in hospital emergency departments are less likely to have imaging tests, such as X-rays…

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IMAGE: Associate professor of pediatrics, emergency medicine and radiology, University of Pittsburgh, and medical director of point-of-care ultrasound at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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Credit: David Wallace
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 29, 2021 – A study led by UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine shows that Black children are 18% less likely to get imaging tests as part of their emergency department visit compared to White children….

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