Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health Care Utilization Following Severe Acute Brain Injury in the United States.
Rayleen C JonesClaire J CreutzfeldtChristopher E CoxKrista L HainesCatherine L HoughMonica S VavilalaTheresa WilliamsonAdrian HernandezKarthik RaghunathanRaquel BartzMatt FullerVijay KrishnamoorthyPublished in: Journal of intensive care medicine (2020)
Minority race was associated with increased utilization of tracheostomy and gastrostomy, as well as decreased hospice utilization among patients with SABI. Further research is needed to better understand the mechanisms underlying these race-based differences in critical care.