Risk factors for hospitalization due to community-acquired sepsis - a population-based case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of the study was to estimate risk factors for hospitalization due to sepsis and to determine whether these risk factors vary by age and gender.

Methods

We performed a population-based case-control study of all adult patients admitted to a medical ED from September 2010 to August 2011. Controls were sampled within the hospital catchment-area. All potential cases were manually validated using a structured protocol. Vital signs and laboratory values measured at arrival were registered to define systemic inflammatory response syndrome and organ dysfunction. Multivariable logistic regression was used to elucidate which predefined risk factors were associated with an increased or decreased risk hospitalization due to sepsis.

Results

A total of 1713 patien

SUBMITTER: Henriksen DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4405362 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature