Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Perioperative Health Care Disparities in the United States: A Systematic Review
Authors' conclusion
This review highlights the persistence of significant perioperative disparities and identifies gaps, such as limited exploration of the causes of these disparities, limited examination of disparities during the preoperative and intraoperative period, and few interventions to address these identified disparities.
Study context
- Population
- US perioperative studies in anesthesiology journals, 2010–2023, on disparities by race, ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status59 studies
- Outcome
- Perioperative disparities identified
Methodological detailsPRISMA, Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment, PROSPERO-registered, Registered with PROSPERO; PRISMA guidelines followed; quality assessed with Newcastle-Ottawa scale, Searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Web of Science; anesthesiology journals 2010 to 2023, 1050 abstracts screened, 116 full texts reviewed, 59 studies included
- PRISMA
- Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment
- PROSPERO-registered
- Registered with PROSPERO; PRISMA guidelines followed; quality assessed with Newcastle-Ottawa scale
- Searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Web of Science; anesthesiology journals 2010 to 2023
- 1050 abstracts screened, 116 full texts reviewed, 59 studies included
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
- Peripartum management (studies)
- 14
- Mortality (studies)
- 12
- Complications (studies)
- 8
- RA use (studies)
- 6
- Pain management (studies)
- 3
Original publication
Perioperative Health Care Disparities in the United States: A Systematic Review. Anesth Analg. Published 5 May 2025. doi:10.
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