Resource Location: https://www.sepsis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sepsis-and-Equity-Fact-Sheet-2021-1-25.pdf
Sepsis Alliance
Highlights many racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities related to sepsis. The fact sheet includes the following sepsis disparities:
- Black and other nonwhite people have nearly twice the incidence of sepsis as whites
- Non-Hispanic black children admitted to an emergency room are less likely to be treated for sepsis than non-Hispanic white children
- Native Hawaiians have almost twice the burden of sepsis mortality compared to whites
- Black children are 30% more likely than white children to develop sepsis after surgery
- Children with severe sepsis or septic shock who are black or Hispanic are about 25% more likely to die than non-Hispanic white children
- Adults below the poverty line have more than three to four times the risk of dying of sepsis compared to adults whose family income is at least five times the poverty line