Exhibit 1.
Characteristics | White | Black | Hispanic | Asian |
---|---|---|---|---|
Patient Variable | ||||
N (% of total sample) | 33,338 (66.6) | 8,663 (17.3) | 5,489 (11.0) | 2,539 (5.1) |
Mean Age, y | 72.7 | 66.1 | 65.1 | 70.4 |
Female, % | 48.5 | 49.5 | 51.1 | 56.5 |
Coexisting condition, % | ||||
Diabetes mellitus | 32.9 | 42.6 | 43.7 | 43.5 |
Congestive heart failure | 21.9 | 20.3 | 17.9 | 16.0 |
Chronic respiratory disease | 11.4 | 13.5 | 10.7 | 12.3 |
End-stage renal disease | 9.2 | 17.8 | 11.1 | 10.5 |
Metastatic cancer | 8.9 | 9.8 | 9.1 | 11.9 |
Chronic liver disease | 5.0 | 7.5 | 9.8 | 7.6 |
Lymphoma/leukemia/multiple myeloma | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.7 |
Organ transplant | 1.4 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 2.8 |
HIV/AIDS | 0.9 | 7.5 | 4.8 | 0.7 |
Site of infection, % | ||||
Respiratory | 39.6 | 38.7 | 38.9 | 40.6 |
Urinary | 28.0 | 25.1 | 26.8 | 25.9 |
Gastrointestinal | 10.4 | 8.1 | 11.0 | 12.7 |
Skin | 7.1 | 8.4 | 6.5 | 3.7 |
Other | 7.7 | 9.8 | 8.9 | 9.2 |
Unknown | 7.1 | 9.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 |
Positive blood cultures, % | 27.6 | 30.8 | 28.4 | 28.1 |
Serum lactate (mmol/liter), median | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
Septic shock, % | 45.4 | 42.8 | 43.4 | 45.8 |
In-hospital mortality, % | 23.5 | 24.8 | 20.2 | 24.5 |
Hospital Variable | ||||
Teaching hospital, % | 75.8 | 93.6 | 94.0 | 95.9 |
Tax status, not-for-profit % | 90.3 | 73.6 | 79.6 | 84.8 |
Medicaid or uninsured/self-pay, median | 9.7 | 31.7 | 26.0 | 14.4 |
Geographic location, % | ||||
New York City | 23.3 | 62.1 | 73.3 | 73.7 |
Non-NYC metro | 71.8 | 37.7 | 26.5 | 26.1 |
Rural | 4.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | † |
Number of sepsis cases, median | 580 | 557 | 737 | 789 |
Number of certified beds, median ( | 375 | 457 | 495 | 535 |
Source: Authors’ analysis of data provided from the New York Sepsis Initiative. Notes: P-values for all comparisons between racial and ethnic groups were <0.001 with the exception of presence of lymphoma/leukemia/multiple myeloma (P=0.20). All percentages are based on the total N except for the percent of each race, which is based on the total study population of 50,029.
Cell suppressed due to small sample size.