Mehul D Patel, Peter Lin, Qian Cheng, Nilay T Argon, Christopher S Evans, Benjamin Linthicum, Yufeng Liu, Abhi Mehrotra, Laura Murphy, Serhan Ziya
OBJECTIVES: There is limited evidence on sex, racial, and ethnic disparities in Emergency Department (ED) triage across diverse settings. We evaluated differences in the assignment of Emergency Severity Index (ESI) by patient sex and race/ethnicity, accounting for age, clinical factors, and ED operating conditions. METHODS: We conducted a multi-site retrospective study of adult patients presenting to high-volume EDs from January 2019-February 2020. Patient-level data were obtained and analyzed from three EDs (academic, metropolitan community, and rural community) affiliated with a large health system in the Southeastern United States...
November 10, 2023: American Journal of Emergency Medicine