Abstract:IMPORTANCE:Which social factors explain racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 access to care and outcomes remain unclear.
OBJECTIVES:We hypothesized that preferred language mediates the association between race, ethnicity and delays to care.
DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Multicenter, retrospective cohort study of adults with COVID-19 consecutively admitted to the ICU in three Massachusetts hospitals in 2020.
MAIN OUTCOME AND MEASURES:Causal mediation analysis was performed to evaluate potential mediator… Show more
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