Open AccessInfection Rate and Acute Organ Dysfunction Risk as Explanations for Racial Differences in Severe Sepsis
Author(s) -
Florian Mayr
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2010.851
Subject(s) - medicine , sepsis , organ dysfunction , context (archaeology) , population , confidence interval , environmental health , paleontology , biology
Severe sepsis, defined as infection complicated by acute organ dysfunction, occurs more frequently and leads to more deaths in black than in white individuals. The optimal approach to minimize these disparities is unclear.
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