Emergency Department Wait Time and Treatment of Traumatic Digit Amputation: Do Race and Insurance Matter?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the association between the quality of trauma care and management of nonfatal injuries. The authors used emergency department wait times as a proxy for hospital structure, process, and availability of on-call surgeons with microsurgical skills. They evaluated the association between average hospital emergency department wait times and likelihood of undergoing digit replantation for patients with traumatic amputation digit injuries. The authors hypothesized that hospitals with shorter emergency department wait times were associated with higher odds of replantation.

Methods

Using the 2007 to 2012 National Trauma Data Bank, the authors' final sample included 12,126 patients. Regression modeling was used to first determine factors that were assoc

SUBMITTER: Mahmoudi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5300165 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature