Racial disparities in the SOFA score among patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Benjamin David TolchinCarol OladeleDeron GalushaNitu KashyapMary ShowstarkJennifer BonitoMichelle C SalazarJennifer L HerbstSteve MartinoNancy KimKatherine A NashMax Jordan Nguemeni TiakoShireen RoyRebeca Vergara GreenoKaren Jubanyik

Published in: PloS one (2021)

Given current unequal patterns in social determinants of health, US crisis standards of care utilizing the SOFA score to allocate medical resources would be more likely to deny these resources to Non-Hispanic Black patients.

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