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Race and the ICU

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In 2002, the Institute of Medicine noted that healthcare disparities exists and that these disparities hurt minority patients. The important question is how do we has healthcare providers decrease these disparities. How do we as critical care providers deliver the type of care that empowers are patients and truly reduce these disparities?

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  1. Department of Surgery, Marshall University, 1600 Medical Center Dr, Suite 2500, Huntington, WV, 25705, USA

    Errington C. Thompson MD

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  1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    David Crippen

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Thompson, E.C. (2016). Race and the ICU. In: Crippen, D. (eds) The Intensivist's Challenge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30454-0_9

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