Critical Care Among Disadvantaged Minority Groups Made Equitable: Trends Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Diana Cristina LopezGeorgina WhelanLisa KojimaSamyukta DoreSaloni LadDominique TuckerEmily AbramczykOmar MehkriXiaozhen HanXiaofeng WangAna Monica Yepes-RiosAbhijit DuggalPublished in: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities (2022)
We found no significant differences in mortality or hospital length of stay between different races and ethnicities. In a pandemic-influenced critical care setting that operated outside conditions of ICU strain and implemented standardized protocol enabling equitable resource distribution, disparities in outcomes often seen among racial and ethnic minority groups were successfully mitigated.