Racial Differences in Mortality from Severe Acute Respiratory Failure in the United States, 2008-2012.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Racial disparities in health and healthcare in the United States are well documented and are increasingly recognized in acute critical illnesses such as sepsis and acute respiratory failure.

Objectives

Using a large, representative, U.S. nationwide database, we examined the hypothesis that black and Hispanic patients with severe acute respiratory failure have higher mortality rates when compared with non-Hispanic whites.

Methods

This retrospective analysis used discharge data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, for the years 2008-2012. We identified hospitalizations with acute respiratory failure using a combination of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revisi

SUBMITTER: Bime C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7531026 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature