Published online July 1, 2005
PEDIATRICS Vol. 116 No. 1 July 2005, pp. 295 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-0913)
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Emergency Department Wait Times

Catherine James, MD
Florence Bourgeois, MD
Michael Shannon, MD
Division of Emergency Medicine,
Department of Pediatrics,
Children's Hospital Boston,
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA 02115

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We appreciate the comments from Brousseau and Gorelick regarding our article on the association between race/ethnicity and emergency department (ED) wait times and would like to respond to the questions that they raised.

As they state, ED wait time varies according to time of day, and it varied in a similar manner for each of the groups studied in the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data. Overall, 12.7% of children arrived between 12 AM and 7 AM, 36.8% between 8 AM and 3 PM, and 50.8% between 4 PM and 11 PM. The results are similar when examined by race/ethnicity. For non-Hispanic white (NHW) patients, 12.2% arrived . . . [Full Text of this Article]