Ethnic and Gender Based Admittance Patterns in the ICU
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Conditions studied: Critical Illness, Gender Equality, Discrimination, Sex, Discrimination, Racial
In brief
The dominating proportion of patients in the ICU are men. Studies indicate that men receive more mechanical ventilation, vasoactive drugs, renal replacement therapy, invasive monitoring and have longer length of stay in the ICU. These differences do not unambiguously translate into a survival benefit for men; if survival would be altered if women were admitted to ICU in the same extent is unknown. Factors affecting ICU admission include age, co-morbidities, physiological parameters (indicating severity of the acute illness) and, additionally, the number of available ICU beds. Factors that should not affect ICU admission include patient gender or ethnicity. This study aims at studying if bias against women and people of certain ethnicities exist. Do clinicians have differing thresholds for ICU admission due to non-medical reasons? The investigators propose testing this hypothesis using a blinded randomized factorial survey study.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05513456
- Run by
- Karolinska Institutet
- People needed
- 5000
- Starts
- 2024-05-31
- Expected to finish
- 2026-11-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-08-27
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- We will include intensive care physicians, both in training and specialists as responders in this randomized survey study
You may not qualify if…
- We will exclude "button-mashers", i.e. participating respondents that toggle through the case descriptions faster than they possibly could read the case description. A case answered <20 seconds will be ruled out.
Where it is running
- Karolinska Institutet — Stockholm, Sweden (enrolling)
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