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A245minutes at teaching hospitals and 175 minutes at non-teaching hospitals. There were significant variations in duration of routine ED visits across race groups at teaching and non-teaching hospitals. The risk-adjusted results show that the mean duration of routine ED visits for black/African American and Asian patients when compared to visits for white patients was shorter by 10.0 and 3.4 percent, respectively, at teaching hospitals; and longer by 3.6 and 13.8 percent, respectively, at non-teaching hospitals. Hispanic patients experienced 8.7 percent longer ED stays when compared to white patients at non-teaching hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: There is significant racial disparity in the duration of routine ED visits, especially in non-teaching hospitals where non-white patients experience longer ED stays compared to white patients. The variation in duration of routine ED visits at teaching hospitals when compared to non-teaching hospitals was smaller across race groups.