Disparities in emergency department prioritization and rooming of patients with similar triage acuity score.
Peter LinNilay T ArgonQian ChengChristopher S EvansBenjamin LinthicumYufeng LiuAbhishek MehrotraMehul D PatelSerhan ZiyaPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2022)
Among ED patients with a similar triage acuity (ESI 3), we identified patient age and patient race as characteristics that were associated with deviation from a FCFS prioritization in ED rooming decisions. These findings suggest that there may be patient demographic disparities in ED rooming decisions after adjusting for clinical and ED operational characteristics.