2021
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06415-2
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First Nations emergency care in Alberta: descriptive results of a retrospective cohort study

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 peop… Show more

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“…Each of the PHC clinics identified that those they served often faced poor treatment when accessing care at local EDs. These findings aligned with historical and ongoing evidence of inequitable treatment in EDs for Indigenous people [4,7,33,34], people experiencing violence [35,36], and those presenting with histories of mental illness [37], substance use and/or homelessness [38,39].…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 68%
“…Each of the PHC clinics identified that those they served often faced poor treatment when accessing care at local EDs. These findings aligned with historical and ongoing evidence of inequitable treatment in EDs for Indigenous people [4,7,33,34], people experiencing violence [35,36], and those presenting with histories of mental illness [37], substance use and/or homelessness [38,39].…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 68%
“…Each of the PHC clinics identi ed that those they served often faced poor treatment when accessing care at local EDs. These ndings aligned with historical and ongoing evidence of inequitable treatment in EDs for Indigenous people (4,7,33,34), people experiencing violence (35,36), and those presenting with histories of mental illness (37), substance use and/or homelessness (38,39).…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 66%
“…Research to date has not studied equity-oriented interventions in Emergency settings. However, the consequences of inequitable treatment of Indigenous people in EDs have been described (4,7,33,34,40), as have efforts to integrate cultural safety in EDs (41). Building on such research, and the lessons learned in our primary health care research, we modi ed the intervention, tailored it to and tested it in EDs (42).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An article studying visits to the emergency department by Indigenous patients in 2004-2005 arrived to the same conclusion but also found that Indigenous patients were more likely to leave the emergency department before being seen by a health care practitioner [134]. A study with the same aim has recently been published in Canada and the results are very similar to those found in Australia [135]. Another study published in Australia about intensive care unit admissions also obtained similar results.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 61%