Race and ethnicity in the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium: demographics, treatments, and outcomes, an international observational registry study

Matthew J. Griffee, David A. Thomson, Jonathon Fanning, Dorothea Rosenberger, Adrian Barnett, Nicole M. White, Jacky Suen, John F. Fraser, Gianluigi Li Bassi & Sung-Min Cho On behalf of the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium. International Journal for Equity in Health. DOI 10.1186/s12939-023-02051-w

Background: Improving access to healthcare for ethnic minorities is a public health priority in many countries, yet little is known about how to incorporate information on race, ethnicity, and related social determinants of health into large international studies. Most studies of differences in treatments and outcomes of COVID-19 associated with race and ethnicity are from single cities or countries.