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Disparities in surgical health service delivery and outcomes for indigenous children

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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY
卷 58, 期 3, 页码 375-383

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W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.09.005

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Pediatric surgery; Surgical disparities; Indigenous child healthcare

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This article presents a systematic review of the literature examining disparities in surgical care and outcomes for pediatric patients of Indigenous ethnicity. The results indicate significant disparities in birth malformations, trauma, general surgery/appendicitis, otolaryngology, and renal transplant surgeries. Surgeons play a crucial role in identifying and eliminating Indigenous ethnicity-based pediatric health disparities.
Background: Evidence of health disparities for Indigenous children requiring surgical care is lacking. We present a systematic review of the literature examining possible disparities in surgical care and outcomes for pediatric patients of Indigenous ethnicity. Data sources: PubMed, Cochrane, MEDLINE, gray literature. Methods: Literature review, using PubMed, Cochrane, MEDLINE, and gray literature was conducted to identify articles published more than 2010-2020 examining children's surgical health service delivery (epidemiology, access, operations provided) and outcomes for pediatric patients of Indigenous ethnicity compared with others. Extracted data included study design, setting, participant race/ethnicity, operations examined, and surgical outcomes. Article quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scales. Results: From 411 abstracts, 125 articles were reviewed and 33 included for data abstraction. These were cohort and cross-sectional studies investigating a wide range of patient populations and proce-dures across the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Articles were organized naturally by theme into birth malformations (15 articles), trauma (6 articles), pediatric general surgery/appendicitis (5 articles), pediatric otolaryngology (6 articles), and renal transplant (1 article) surgery. Four articles also described access and resource utilization related to inpatient care. Notable disparities observed included apparent increased prevalence of gastroschisis, rates of traumatic fatality, non accidental injury, and self harm among North American Indigenous children. Conclusions: Indigenous children appear to be vulnerable to a number of health and treatment outcome disparities related to conditions treated by surgeons. Surgeons are thus uniquely poised to act in identi-fying and eliminating Indigenous ethnicity-based pediatric health disparities. (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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