Open AccessRacial and Ethnic Differences in Hospital Admissions of Emergency Department COVID-19 Patients
Author(s) -
Joshua Longcoy,
Rahul Patwari,
Scott Hasler,
Tricia J. Johnson,
Elizabeth Avery,
Kristina Stefanini,
Sumihiro Suzuki,
David Ansell,
Elizabeth Lynch
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001710
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , odds , ethnic group , odds ratio , confounding , intensive care unit , covid-19 , health care , emergency medicine , family medicine , disease , logistic regression , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , sociology , anthropology , economics , economic growth
Several studies have found that among patients testing positive for COVID-19 within a health care system, non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patients are more likely than non-Hispanic White patients to be hospitalized. However, previous studies have looked at odds of being admitted using all positive tests in the system and not only those seeking care in the emergency department (ED).