{
  "abstract": "In a study published in Heart, Garin and colleagues demonstrated that patients with an ‘uncommon’ surname presenting with an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) had a longer first medical contact (FMC)-to-diagnosis time compared to those with a ‘common’ surname (59.4±87.6 vs 40.6±37.6 min; mean difference +16.8 min; p=0.009).1 This delay was only identified in patients whose FMC was in the emergency department (ED) (mean difference +32.0 min; 95% CI +1.4 to +62.5; p=0.040) and not when the FMC was with ambulance paramedics (mean difference +9.7 min; 95% CI −3.7 to +23.1; p=0.158). The discrepancy points to a concern with the triage process in ED and implies potential bias in the speed of managing patients based on their surname which the authors suggest can be used as a proxy for ethnicity.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Intensive Care Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Mo Al-Haddad"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Dipesh Gopal"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Mala Rao"
    }
  ],
  "title": "What is in a name? Name bias and tackling health disparities",
  "uid": "949eb142-f652-5a48-a8f5-03d373482a5e"
}