Why the study?
Do sociodemographic differences affect triage assignment and initial diagnostic testing in the emergency department for patients presenting with chest pain?
Population
Adults presenting to the emergency department with a complaint of chest pain
Comparison
Minority race/ethnicity and lower socioeconomic… vs White race and private insurance
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
Loading...
Disparities may affect chest pain evaluation; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change triage practice.
Do sociodemographic differences affect triage assignment and initial diagnostic testing in the emergency department for patients presenting with chest pain?
Significant racial, ethnic, and insurance-based disparities exist in the emergent triage and basic cardiac testing of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain.
López et al. (2010) studied this question.