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SUBMITTER: Corl K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6814952 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20190701 7
After 2013, when New York State mandated that hospitals follow protocols to treat sepsis, completion of the protocols increased and mortality declined. Whether these encouraging trends have equitably benefited racial/ethnic minority populations is unknown. Although there were no significant racial/ethnic differences in rates of protocol completion at the onset of New York's Sepsis Initiative, over time white patients experienced a greater increase in protocol completion rates (14.0 percentage po ...[more]