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Blacks More Likely to Die of Severe Sepsis
Date:2/9/2008

white patients who are sicker than we can measure using these data sources, and/or that these hospitals are providing lower quality care."

The study was published in the first issue for February of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

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The Society of Critical Care Medicine has more about severe sepsis.



-- Robert Preidt



SOURCE: American Thoracic Society, news release, Feb. 1, 2008


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