Identifying and Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Emergency Care (Disparities)

The goals are to measure racial/ethnic disparities and to examine provider implicit bias. We will develop and validate disparities-sensitive measures. We will use these measures to identify disparities in the quality of pediatric ED using the PECARN Registry. The expected outcomes of our research are an enhanced capacity to capture, analyze, and report performance improvement data to address disparities, and assess for modifiable factors, such as provider implicit racial/ethnic bias. While there is robust evidence of disparities in pediatric emergency care (PEC), accurate and meaningful metrics that allow for measuring and reporting disparities are still needed to promote equity in the ED.