Understanding patient sociodemographic factors is necessary to quantify equity and inclusion in healthcare. The World Health Organization recommends all countries integrate health inequality monitoring into their information systems and develop practices that promote health equity. Dr. Murdoch Leeies explains the findings of his recent publication on collecting sociodemographic data in Emergency Departments.  This conversation includes recommendations for Emergency Departments to implement equity-focused collection of sociodemographic variables. 

Dr. Murdoch Leeies works clinically in Manitoba as an emergency medicine, critical care medicine and organ donation specialist physician.  Dr. Leeies is trained in clinical epidemiology and is the Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Manitoba.  Dr. Leeies is leading a collaborative program of research with a focus on the promotion of equity, diversity, decolonization and inclusion (EDDI) in emergency medicine, critical care medicine and organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Canada.  

The paper discussed in this episode is titled "Equity-relevant sociodemographic variable collection in emergency medicine: A systematic review, qualitative evidence synthesis, and recommendations for practice"and was published in November 2022 in the American Emergency Medicine Journal. 

You can read the paper here 
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