First Nations emergency care in Alberta: descriptive results of a retrospective cohort study ...

• Main Authors: McLane, Patrick, Barnabe, Cheryl, Holroyd, Brian R, Colquhoun, Amy, Bill, Lea, Fitzpatrick, Kayla M, Rittenbach, Katherine, Healy, Chyloe, Healy, Bonnie, Rosychuk, Rhonda J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Calgary 2021
• Subjects: Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/44664; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/113384

Abstract Background Worse health outcomes are consistently reported for First Nations people in Canada. Social, political and economic inequities as well as inequities in health care are major contributing factors to these health disparities. Emergency care is an important health services resource for First Nations people. First Nations partners, academic researchers, and health authority staff are collaborating to examine emergency care visit characteristics for First Nations and non-First Nations people in the province of Alberta. Methods We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study examining all Alberta emergency care visits from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2017 by linking administrative data. Patient demographics and emergency care visit characteristics for status First Nations persons in Alberta, and non-First Nations persons, are reported. Frequencies and percentages (%) describe patients and visits by categorical variables (e.g., Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale). Means, medians, standard ...