Racial Differences in Pediatric Emergency Department Triage Scores

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 720-727

  Zook, Heather G ^a   Kharbanda, Anupam B ^a   Flood, Andrew ^a   Harmon, Brian ^a   Puumala, Susan E ^b,c   Payne, Nathaniel R ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SANFORD RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; pediatrics; race; triage

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CLINICAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAD INJURY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRICS; RACISM; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PEDIATRICS; RACISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958260209     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2015.02.056     Document Type: Article

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