Objectives: Racial disparities in the United States healthcare system are well described
across a variety of clinical settings. The ICU is a clinical environment with a higher acuity …

Objective: To summarize the current literature on racial and gender disparities in critical care
and the mechanisms underlying these disparities in the course of acute critical illness. Data …

The pervasive application of algorithmic decision-making is raising concerns on the risk of
unintended bias in AI systems deployed in critical settings such as healthcare. The detection …

Critical care, defined as the diagnosis and management of life-threatening conditions that
require close or constant attention by a group of specially trained health professionals, is …

Rationale: Disparities in patient selection for advanced therapeutics in health care have
been identified in multiple studies, but it is unclear if disparities exist in patient selection for …

Background: Although racial/ethnic minorities receive more intense, nonbeneficial
healthcare at the end of life, the role of race/ethnicity independent of other social …

Background Arterial (AC) and central venous catheterization (CVC) are common in intensive
care units (ICUs). Few data describe which patients receive these devices and whether …

Background: Previous reports suggest that there are major disparities in outcomes following
total joint arthroplasty among patients with different payer statuses. The explanation for …

Objectives: In the United States, sepsis is a major public health problem accounting for over
200,000 annual deaths. The aims of this study were to identify US counties with high sepsis …

Background Dementia is a leading cause of death for older adults and is more common
among persons from racial/ethnic minoritized groups, who also tend to experience more …