Door-to-ECG Time and Gender Equity

A quality improvement project to reduce door-to-electrocardiogram time: A multicenter study

“…Male patients had 1.23 times higher odds of receiving their EKG within 10 minutes than female patients. To date, the literature has been unclear as to whether women receive EKGs in the ED significantly slower than men [20]. Our study provides definitive evidence that, in our study population, after controlling for confounding factors, female patients received EKGs slower than male patients.…”