Prolonged Boarding and Racial Discrimination and Dissatisfaction Among Emergency Department Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Emergency department (ED) boarding times have increased rapidly, but their health equity outcomes are unknown.

Objective

To investigate whether prolonged ED boarding is associated with increased perceived racial discrimination and dissatisfaction and whether associations vary between patients from marginalized racial and ethnic groups vs non-Hispanic White patients.

Design, setting, and participants

This is a cross-sectional study of hospitalized adults who boarded in the ED during internal medicine admissions at a large, urban hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, from June 2023 to January 2024. Equal proportions of non-Hispanic White patients and patients from marginalized racial and ethnic groups (American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic, non-Hispanic Bla

SUBMITTER: Olson RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11406394 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature