Study finds disparity in critical care deaths between non-minority and minority hospitals
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

While deaths steadily declined over a decade in intensive care units at hospitals with few minority patients, in ICUs with large numbers of minority patients, there was less improvement, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society`s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.The disparity was most pronounced among critically ill African American patients.