Socioeconomic status is associated with process times in the emergency department for patients with chest pain.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Emergency department length of stay (EDLOS) is linked to crowding and patient outcomes whereas worse prognosis in low socioeconomic status remains poorly understood. We studied whether income was associated with ED process times among patients with chest pain.

Methods

This was a registry-based cohort study on 124,980 patients arriving at 14 Swedish EDs between 2015 and 2019 with chest pain as their chief complaint. Individual-level sociodemographic and clinical data were linked from multiple national registries. The associations between disposable income quintiles, whether the time to physician assessment exceeded triage priority recommendations as well as EDLOS were evaluated using crude and multivariable regression models adjusted for age, gender, sociodemographi

SUBMITTER: Herlitz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329481 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature