Racial disparities in infection-related mortality at Alice Springs Hospital, Central Australia, 2000-2005 [Paper in: Indigenous Health]

Objective: To compare infection‐related mortality rates and pathogens isolated for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous adult patients at Alice Springs Hospital (ASH). Design, participants and setting: Retrospective study of inhospital deaths of adults (patients aged ≥ 15 years) associated with an infectio...

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Published in:Medical journal of Australia 2008-05, Vol.188 (10), p.568-571
Main Authors: Einsiedel, Lloyd J, Fernandes, Liselle A, Woodman, Richard J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aboriginal health
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bacterial infections
Biological and medical sciences
Death & dying
Demography
Diabetes
Disadvantaged groups
Diseases
Epidemiology
Ethnic Groups
Female
Fungal infections
General aspects
Hepatitis B
Hospital Mortality - trends
Hospitals
Humans
Indigenous health
Inequality
Infections - ethnology
Infections - mortality
Infectious diseases
Life expectancy
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mortality
Native peoples
Northern Territory
Northern Territory - epidemiology
Pathogens
Patients
Population
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Racial differences
Retrospective Studies
Risk factors
Sepsis
Serology
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Survival Rate - trends
Viral infections
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Summary:Objective: To compare infection‐related mortality rates and pathogens isolated for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous adult patients at Alice Springs Hospital (ASH). Design, participants and setting: Retrospective study of inhospital deaths of adults (patients aged ≥ 15 years) associated with an infection during a medical or renal admission to ASH between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2005. Main outcome measures: Admission‐ and population‐based infection‐related mortality rates and mortality rate ratios (MRRs) for Indigenous versus non‐Indigenous adults. Results: There were 513 deaths, of 351 Indigenous and 162 non‐Indigenous patients. For Indigenous patients, 60% of deaths were infection‐related, compared with 25% for non‐Indigenous patients (P 
ISSN:0025-729X
1326-5377
DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01791.x