Collection of patient race, ethnicity, and language data in emergency departments: a national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There is mounting evidence of racial and ethnic discrimination in the Canadian health care system. Patient level race and ethnicity data are required to identify potential disparities in clinical outcomes and access to health care. However, it is not known what patient race, ethnicity, and language data are collected by Canadian hospitals. This gap limits opportunities to identify and address inequalities in the health care system. The emergency department (ED) is a major point of contact for many patients accessing the health care system, and is therefore a reasonable place to conduct analysis of patient data collection. This study aims to quantify the proportion of Canadian EDs that collect patient race, ethnicity, and primary language data.

Methods

We identified a

SUBMITTER: Velmurugiah N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9579626 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature