Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in California Ambulance Patient Offload Times
This cohort study of 5.9 million ambulance offloads found that the proportion of Black residents was the factor most significantly associated with longer APOT. These findings have direct implications for patients, EMS systems, and hospitals, as APOT may be an important component of health disparities in emergency care.
Authors
- Madeline Feldmeier
- Dustin W. Ballard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5801-8794)
- Renee Yuen-Jan Hsia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9819-6926)
- Vadim M. Shteyler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1962-9493)
- Christopher B. Colwell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1375-7056)
- Richard Julian G. Bagay
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of California System (US)
- Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2025-05-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.10325
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.25