Health Care Disparities and Critical Illnesses-Related Mortality in the United States.

Objectives: To examine the association between social vulnerability index (SVI) and social deprivation index (SDI) with critical illness-related mortality in the United States and to guide future research and interventions aimed at reducing disparities in outcomes in patients with critical illness.

Design: A cross-sectional study using county-level data.

Setting: United States with data sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research and the American Community Survey.

Multimodal Quality Initiatives in Sepsis Care: Assessing Impact on Core Measures and Outcomes.

Providing timely and effective care for patients with sepsis is challenging due to delays in recognition and intervention. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign has developed bundles that have been shown to reduce sepsis mortality. However, hospitals have not consistently adhered to these bundles, resulting in suboptimal outcomes.