Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Population Served and Imaging Used in US Children's Hospital Emergency Departments.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Lower rates of diagnostic imaging have been observed among Black children compared with White children in pediatric emergency departments. Although the racial composition of the pediatric population served by each hospital differs, it is unclear whether this is associated with overall imaging rates at the hospital level, and in particular how it may be associated with the difference in imaging rates between Black and White children at a given hospital.

Objective

To examine the association between the diversity of the pediatric population seen at each pediatric ED and variation in diagnostic imaging.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional analysis of ED visits by patients younger than 18 years at 38 children's hospitals from January 1, 2016, throu

SUBMITTER: Samuels-Kalow ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9164005 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature