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American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 74, Issue 5 494-497, Copyright © 1984 by American Public Health Association

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Patient transfers: medical practice as social triage.

D U Himmelstein, S Woolhandler, M Harnly, M B Bader, R Silber, H D Backer and A A Jones

We studied 458 consecutive patient transfers from 14 private hospitals to a public hospital emergency room during a six-month period. The transferred patients were predominantly male, young, and uninsured, and included large numbers of minority group members. We established criteria to identify patients at high risk for adverse effects of transfer and reviewed the clinical records of the 103 patients meeting these criteria. We judged that transfer resulted in substandard care for 33 of these patients, either because they were at risk for life-threatening complications in transit or because urgently needed diagnosis or therapy was delayed. In the community studied, transfer is a common and potentially dangerous medical intervention which appears to reinforce racial and class inequalities of access to medical care.




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