Black-white racial disparities in sepsis: A prospective analysis of the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort

Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Moore, Justin Xavier ^a,b   Donnelly, John P ^a,b   Griffin, Russell ^b   Safford, Monika M ^a   Howard, George ^b   Baddley, John ^a   Wang, Henry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; CYSTATIN C;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEPSIS; SKIN INFECTION; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936863621     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-0992-8     Document Type: Article

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