Race and Ethnicity and Diagnostic Testing for Common Conditions in the Acute Care Setting

MI Ellenbogen, PL Weygandt… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Overuse of diagnostic testing is pervasive, but the extent to which it varies by
race and ethnicity in the acute care setting is poorly understood. Objective To use a …

Exploration of Electronic Health Record Patterns of Emergency Physicians—Charting the Digital Burden

LS Rotenstein, M Molina - JAMA Network Open, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Amidst continued high demand for emergency department (ED) services, staffing shortages,
and an ongoing ED capacity crisis across the US, recent surveys have estimated ED …

Identifying patient subpopulations with significant race-sex differences in emergency department disposition decisions

P Lin, NT Argon, Q Cheng, CS Evans… - Health Services …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/objectives: The race-sex differences in emergency department (ED) disposition
decisions have been reported widely. Our objective is to identify demographic and clinical …

Racial difference in receiving computed tomography for head injury patients in emergency departments

YH Chen, N Handly, DC Chang, YW Chen - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Study objective Prior studies have suggested potential racial differences in receiving
imaging tests in emergency departments (EDs), but the results remain inconclusive. In …

Disparities in documentation: evidence of race-based biases in the electronic medical record

ZK Ivy, S Hwee, BC Kimball, MD Evans… - Journal of Racial and …, 2024 - Springer
Personal implicit biases may contribute to inequitable health outcomes, but the mechanisms
of these effects are unclear at a system level. This study aimed to determine whether …

Assessment of racial, ethnic, and sex-based disparities in time-to-antibiotics and sepsis outcomes in a large multihospital cohort

TR Pak, SM Sánchez, CS McKenna, C Rhee… - Critical Care …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVES: To characterize associations between race/ethnicity/sex, time-to-antibiotics,
and mortality in patients with suspected sepsis or septic shock. DESIGN: Retrospective …

Identifying low acuity Emergency Department visits with a machine learning approach: The low acuity visit algorithms (LAVA)

AT Chen, RS Kuzma, AB Friedman - Health Services Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To improve the performance of International Classification of Disease (ICD) code
rule‐based algorithms for identifying low acuity Emergency Department (ED) visits by using …

Pediatric Triage Accuracy in Pediatric and General Emergency Departments

AT Geanacopoulos, A Peltz, K Melton… - Hospital …, 2025 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Accurate triage at the time of emergency department
(ED) presentation is critical for timely acuity assessment and anticipating resource …

Emergency hospital admissions for stress-related presentations among secondary school-aged minoritised young people in England

SN Chobhthaigh, MA Jay, R Blackburn - The British Journal of …, 2024 - cambridge.org
BackgroundMinoritised young people face a double burden of discrimination through
increased risk of stress and differential treatment access. However, acute care pathways for …

Assessment of Racial, Ethnic, and Sex-Based Disparities in Time-to-Antibiotics and Sepsis Outcomes in a Large Multihospital Cohort

LK Anderson-Shaw - Critical Care Medicine, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Access to needed healthcare resources in the United States is often very challenging and is
highly dependent on where one lives, what economic resources they have, as well as what …