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Racial and ethnic inequities in health care and outcomes are often the result of long-standing social injustices rather than any biological differences. Even with increased awareness and efforts to improve quality of care overall, inequities do not always diminish. Investigators examined outcomes and care processes among a diverse cohort of infants born at 22 to 28 weeks' gestation from 2006 to 2016.
During the study period, mortality and incidence of most severe morbidities declined for all infants in the U.S., with the rate of change no different among Black, Hispanic, and white infants — although rates of late sepsis, initially higher among Black and Hispanic infants, declined more for these groups than for white infants. Disparities in p…