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. 1991 Oct;26(4):531–542.

Relationship between patient race and survival following admission to intensive care among patients of primary care physicians.

R D Horner 1, F H Lawler 1, B L Hainer 1
PMCID: PMC1069839  PMID: 1917504

Abstract

This study investigated the existence of racial differences in the survival of patients admitted to intensive care by family physicians and general internists for circulatory illnesses. The study population consisted of 249 consecutive patients admitted by these specialists to an ICU in a tertiary care hospital in Pitt County, North Carolina, during the June 1985 to June 1986 period. Logistic regression was used to specify the unique effect of race on ICU patient survival in-hospital, controlling for potential confounding factors such as disease severity, type of health insurance, and case mix. Black patients were almost three times more likely than white patients to die in-hospital following admission to the ICU (RR = 2.9, 95 percent I = 1.5, 5.6). Most of this difference in survival was explained by racial differences in disease severity.

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