Racial Differences in Sepsis Mortality at U.S. Academic Medical Center-Affiliated Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the racial disparities in severe sepsis hospitalizations and outcomes in U.S. academic medical center-affiliated hospitals.

Design

Retrospective analysis of sepsis hospitalizations.

Settings

U.S. academic medical center-affiliated hospitals participating in Vizient Consortium from 2012 to 2014.

Patients

Sepsis hospitalizations using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth revision, discharge diagnoses codes defined by the Angus method.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

We compared rates of sepsis hospitalization, ICU admission, organ dysfunction, and hospital mortality between blacks and whites. We repeated the analyses stratified by community-acquired, healthcare-associated, and hospital-acquired se

SUBMITTER: Chaudhary NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5953774 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature