Abstract
Prolonged emergency department (ED) wait time is a significant barrier in access to medical care and timely diagnosis and treatment. Prior research has established that ED wait time disparities exist for non-white, non-male, and non-English speaking patients. However, disparities have been analyzed only for particular conditions or without controlling for patient condition. We study the existence of disparities in wait times of patients of different genders, races, primary languages, as well as transgender patients, while accounting for acuity, chief complaint, time of arrival, mode of arrival, patient age and vital signs as well as ED flow variables at the time of patient arrival.
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