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HEALTH AFFAIRS
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages W84-W95Publisher
PROJECT HOPE
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.w84
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- PHS HHS [5T32 HP110011] Funding Source: Medline
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As emergency department (ED) patient volumes increase throughout the United States, are patients waiting longer to see an ED physician? We evaluated the change in wait time to see an ED physician from 1997 to 2004 for all adult ED patients, patients diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and patients whom triage personnel designated as needing emergent attention. Increases in wait times of 4.1 percent per year occurred for all patients but were especially pronounced for patients with AMI, for whom waits increased 11.2 percent per year. Blacks, Hispanics, women, and patients seen in urban EDs waited longer than other patients did.
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