Understanding Contributors to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Throughput Times: a Sequential Mixed Methods Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ensuring equitable care remains a critical issue for healthcare systems. Nationwide evidence highlights the persistence of healthcare disparities and the need for research-informed approaches for reducing them at the local level.

Objective

To characterize key contributors in racial/ethnic disparities in emergency department (ED) throughput times.

Design

We conducted a sequential mixed methods analysis to understand variations in ED care throughput times for patients eventually admitted to an emergency department at a single academic medical center from November 2017 to May 2018 (n=3152). We detailed patient progression from ED arrival to decision to admit and compared racial/ethnic differences in time intervals from electronic medical record time-stamp data

SUBMITTER: Aysola J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8811086 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature