Association of Socioeconomic Status With Outcomes and Care Quality in Patients Presenting With Undifferentiated Chest Pain in the Setting of Universal Health Care Coverage.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess whether there are disparities in incidence rates, care, and outcomes for patients with chest pain attended by emergency medical services according to socioeconomic status (SES) in a universal health coverage setting. METHODS AND RESULTS This was a population-based cohort study of individually linked ambulance, emergency, hospital admission, and mortality data in the state of Victoria, Australia, from January 2015 to June 2019 that included 183 232 consecutive emergency medical services attendances for adults with nontraumatic chest pain (mean age 62 [SD 18] years; 51% women) and excluded out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. Age-standardized incidence of chest pain was higher for patients residing in lower SES a

SUBMITTER: Dawson LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075482 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature