Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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African Americans with acute coronary syndromes receive cardiac catheterization less frequently than whites. The objective was to determine if such disparities extend to acute evaluation and non interventional treatment. ⋯ Racial disparities in acute chest pain management extend beyond cardiac catheterization. Poor compliance with recommended treatments for ACS may be an explanation.
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To determine if there are any differences in proportion of high-acuity care and low-acuity care provided to uninsured, Medicaid-insured, and privately insured emergency department (ED) patients. ⋯ Whereas there were some statistically discerned differences between insurance groupings for proportionate receipt of low-acuity care and high-acuity care among both the pediatric and adult populations, the magnitude of most differences noted was not large, and may not reflect important differences in health care need or ED use based on insurance.