ReviewCritical care medicine2013
Healthcare disparities in critical illness.
Review in Critical care medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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80 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 163 citations in OpenAlex.
- Do Interventions Improve Symptoms Among ICU Surrogates Facing End-of-Life Decisions? A Prognostically-Enriched Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Critical care medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Artificial intelligence for mechanical ventilation: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and bias.British journal of anaesthesia · 2022Pooled it
- Ethnic Disparities in Deep Sedation of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the United States: Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Randomized Trial.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2024Trial
- Improving racial disparities in unmet palliative care needs among intensive care unit family members with a needs-targeted app intervention: The ICUconnect randomized clinical trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Trial
- Predictors of 6-month health utility outcomes in survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome.Thorax · 2017Trial
- The Influence of Race/Ethnicity and Education on Family Ratings of the Quality of Dying in the ICU.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2016Trial
- Regional variance in socioeconomic status among Dutch intensive care units: a nationwide cohort study of 588,568 ICU admissions.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Timing matters: sex differences in treatment limitation decisions in intensive care.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Article
- Disparities in Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Acute Respiratory Distress by Sex, Region, and Socioeconomic Status.ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992) · 2026Article
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- Racial and ethnic differences in COVID-19-associated septic shock.World journal of critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Racial differences in outcomes among patients with septic shock: A national cohort study.World journal of critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Influenza-Associated Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization by Race and Ethnicity in the USA: a Retrospective Cohort Study Using the National Inpatient Sample Database.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Acute Care Use and Prognosis in Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2025Article
- Impact of healthcare system strain on the implementation of ICU sedation practices and encephalopathy burden during the early COVID-19 pandemic.GeroScience · 2025Article
- The Financial Impact of Post Intensive Care Syndrome.Critical care clinics · 2025Review
- Interventions to improve racial and ethnic equity in critical care: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Reasons for declining participation in inpatient research among historically minoritized racial and ethnic communities: A scoping review.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2024Article
- Reducing health disparities in providing care services in the intensive care unit: a critical ethnographic study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Social Disparities and Critical Illness during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Narrative Review.Critical care clinics · 2024Review
20 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo 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 critical illness, such as sepsis, acute lung injury, pneumonia, venous thromboembolism, and cardiac arrest. STUDY SELECTION: Clinical studies that evaluated general critically ill patient populations in the United States as well as specific critical care conditions were reviewed with a focus on studies evaluating factors and contributors to health disparities. DATA EXTRACTION: Study findings are presented according to their association with the prevalence, clinical presentation, management, and outcomes in acute critical illness. DATA SYNTHESIS: This review presents potential contributors for racial and gender disparities related to genetic susceptibility, comorbidities, preventive health services, socioeconomic factors, cultural differences, and access to care. The data are organized along the course of acute critical illness.
conclusionsThe 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. The data presented identify potential targets as interventions to reduce disparities in critical care and future avenues for research.
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