Racial/Ethnic Minority Children With Cancer Experience Higher Mortality on Admission to the ICU in the United States*

This study details the analysis of 23,128 PICU admissions of 12,232 unique oncology patients representing 3% of all PICU admissions with 1,610 deaths (7.0% case fatality). African American (8.5%) and Hispanic children (8.1%) had significantly higher mortality (p
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