Race and ethnicity and primary language in emergency department triage

JAMA Network Open

2023-10-12

(Press-News.org) About The Study: In this study of 249,000 visits to seven academic and community hospital emergency departments, patients who identified as Black, Hispanic, and Other race and ethnicity were assigned less acute Emergency Severity Index scores than their white peers despite having received more involved physician workups, suggesting some degree of mistriage. Clinical decision support systems might reduce these disparities but would require careful calibration to avoid replicating bias.

Authors: Joshua W. Joseph, M.D., M.S., M.B.E., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.37557)

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