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Available online /content/13/1/R28 Vol 13 No 1 Open Access Research The burden of sepsis-associated mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2005: an analysis of multiple-cause-of-death data 1 2 Alexander Melamed and Frank J Sorvillo 1Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Avenue, Keith Administrative Building, Room 100-B, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA 2Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Corresponding author: Alexander Melamed, melameda@ Received: 25 Nov 2008 Revisions requested: 27 Jan 2009 Revisions received: 6 Feb 2009 Accepted: 27 Feb 2009 Published: 27 Feb 2009 Critical Care 2009, 13:R28 (doi:10.1186/cc7733) This article is online at: /content/13/1/R28 © 2009 Melamed and Sorvillo; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Sepsis is the 10th leading cause of death in the ethnicity and sex groups (P 0.0001). After controlling for age, United States. The National Center for Health Statistics Asians were less likely than whites to experience sepsis-related multiple-cause-of-death (MCOD) dataset is a large, publicly death (rate ratio (RR) = 0.78, 95% CI = 0.77 to 0.78), while available, population-based source of information on disease Blacks (RR = 2.24, 95% CI = 2.23 to 2.24), American Indians/ burden in the United St