Race Does Not Impact Sepsis Outcomes When Considering Socioeconomic Factors in Multilevel Modeling.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether race is a major determinant of sepsis outcomes when controlling for socioeconomic factors.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Barnes-Jewish Hospital a 1,350 bed academic medical center.

Patients

Eleven-thousand four-hundred thirty-two patients hospitalized between January 2010 and April 2017 with sepsis and septic shock.

Interventions

Multilevel random effects modeling was employed whereby patients were nested within ZIP codes. Individual patient characteristics and socioeconomic variables aggregated at the ZIP code level (education, employment status, income, poverty level, access to healthcare) were included in the model.

Measurements and main results

In hospital mortality, length of stay, need for vasopre

SUBMITTER: Vazquez Guillamet MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366968 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature