Gender Bias in the Management of Patients Still Exists

Abstract

In this volume of Academic Emergency Medicine, Humphries et al, report that females with cardiac chest pain and cardiac troponin levels above the 99^th percentile are less likely to receive guideline recommended care for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). By using strict criteria, the authors attempted to adjust for differences in presentation and adding to existing literature showing that gender bias exists even when objective criteria are used.

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