Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Wait Times for Headache
© 2023. W. Montague Cobb-NMA Health Institute..
Headache is a common complaint of individuals seeking treatment in the emergency department (ED). Because pain is subjective, medical evaluation is susceptible to implicit bias that can lead to disparities in wait times. The aim of this study was to determine whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in ED wait times for headache. Our study used the 2015-2018 National Hospital Ambulatory Care Surveys (NHAMCS), a nationally representative sample of ambulatory care visits to EDs. Our sample consisted of visits made by adults for headaches, which were identified using ICD-10 diagnosis codes and NHAMCS reason for visit codes. There were 12,301,655 ED visits for headache represented by our sample. The mean wait time for headache visits was 38.1 min (95%CI: 31.1, 45.0). The mean wait time for Non-Hispanic White patients, non-Hispanic Black patients, Hispanic patients, and the other race and ethnicity groups were 34.7 min (95%CI: 27.5, 42.0), 46.4 min (95%CI: 26.5, 66.4), 37.9 min (95%CI: 19.4, 56.3), and 21.0 min (95%CI: 6.3, 35.7) respectively. After controlling for patient- and hospital-level covariates, visits by non-Hispanic Black patients had 40% (95%CI: -0.01, 0.81, p = 0.056) longer wait times and visits by Hispanic patients had 39% (95%CI: -0.03, 0.80, p = 0.068) longer wait times than visits by non-Hispanic White patients. While our findings suggest that there may be longer wait times for visits by non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patients compared to visits by non-Hispanic White patients, further research is needed to confirm these findings and determine causes of wait times disparities in the ED.
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11 |
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Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities - 11(2024), 2 vom: 12. März, Seite 1005-1013 |
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Englisch |
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Pierre Louis, Kaniya M [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 14.03.2024 Date Revised 14.03.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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