Lia I. Losonczy

TL;DR: Unconscious social class and race biases were not significantly associated with clinical decision making among acute care surgical clinicians and in univariate analyses, a association between race/social class bias and 3 of 27 possible patient-care decisions was found.

TL;DR: Unconscious preferences for white and upper-class persons are prevalent among trauma and acute care surgeons, but these biases were not statistically significantly associated with clinical decision making.

TL;DR: Significant differences in mortality after blunt injury were seen between insurance types, even among those commonly grouped in other studies, and policymakers may use this information to implement programs to monitor and reduce insurance-related disparities.

TL;DR: Disparities in trauma mortality suffered by minority and uninsured patients, when compared with non-minority and insured patients, worsen with increasing injury.

TL;DR: Alpha-blockers have been associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer aggressiveness in some observational studies and an increased risk in other studies, but this relationship is complex as different alpha-blocks have divergent effects in laboratory studies and there are many confounders in daily practice such as differential screening practices.