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Healthcare disparities in critical illness.

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The literature to date shows that disparities in critical care are most likely multifactorial involving individual, community, and hospital-level factors at several points in the continuum of acute critical illness.
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Objective:To summarize the current literature on racial and gender disparities in critical care and the mechanisms underlying these disparities in the course of acute critical illness.Data Sources:MEDLINE search on the published literature addressing racial, ethnic, or gender disparities in acute cr

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TL;DR: Severe sepsis is a common, expensive, and frequently fatal condition, with as many deaths annually as those from acute myocardial infarction, and is especially common in the elderly and is likely to increase substantially as the U.S. population ages.
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TL;DR: In this article, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment, examining how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looking at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities.
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The Epidemiology of Sepsis in the United States from 1979 through 2000

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Efficacy and safety of recombinant human activated protein C for severe sepsis.

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