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Ethnic and Gender Based Admittance Patterns in the ICU
Led by Karolinska Institutet · Updated on 2025-08-27
5000
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
126 weeks
Total Duration
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What this Trial Is About
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.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Ethnic and Gender Based Admittance Patterns in the ICU
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Intensive care physicians, both in training and specialists, are eligible to participate as responders in this randomized survey study
You will not qualify if you...
- Respondents who answer case descriptions too quickly, specifically cases answered in less than 20 seconds, will be excluded as "button-mashers"
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
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Research Team
M
Max Bell, MD, PhD
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Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
N/A
Model
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Primary Purpose
N/A
Number of Arms
0
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