Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Heart Center, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA.
University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Cardiol Young. 2024 Mar;34(3):563-569. doi: 10.1017/S1047951123002950. Epub 2023 Aug 14.
Racial and ethnic disparities are well described in paediatric cardiac critical care outcomes. However, understanding the mechanisms behind these outcomes and implementing interventions to reduce and eliminate disparities remain a gap in the field of paediatric cardiac critical care. The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC) established the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee in 2020 to promote an equity lens to its aim of improving paediatric cardiac critical care quality and outcomes across North America. The PC EDI Committee is working to increase research, quality improvement, and programming efforts to work towards health equity. It also aims to promote health equity considerations in PC research. In addition to a focus on patient outcomes and research, the committee aims to increase the inclusion of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) members in the PC collaborative. The following manuscript outlines the development, structure, and aims of the PC EDI Committee and describes an analysis of social determinants of health in published PC research.
在儿科心脏重症监护的结果中，种族和民族差异得到了很好的描述。然而，了解这些结果背后的机制，并实施干预措施来减少和消除差异，这在儿科心脏重症监护领域仍然是一个空白。儿科心脏重症监护联盟（PC）于 2020 年成立了公平、多样性和包容性（EDI）委员会，旨在将公平视角纳入其目标，即在北美范围内提高儿科心脏重症监护的质量和结果。PC EDI 委员会正在努力增加研究、质量改进和计划工作，以努力实现健康公平。它还旨在促进 PC 研究中对健康公平的考虑。除了关注患者的结果和研究外，该委员会还旨在增加黑人、原住民和有色人种（BIPOC）成员在 PC 合作中的包容性。以下手稿概述了 PC EDI 委员会的发展、结构和目标，并描述了对已发表的 PC 研究中健康的社会决定因素的分析。
