Long-term risk of seizures in adult survivors of sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between sepsis and the long-term risk of seizures.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study using administrative claims data from all emergency department visits and hospitalizations at nonfederal acute care hospitals in California, Florida, and New York from 2005 to 2013. Using previously validated diagnosis codes, we identified all adult patients hospitalized with sepsis. Our outcome was any emergency department visit or hospitalization for seizure. Poisson regression and demographic data were used to calculate age-, sex-, and race-standardized incidence rate ratios (IRR). To confirm our findings, we used a matched cohort of hospitalized patients without sepsis for comparison and additionally assessed claims da

SUBMITTER: Reznik ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5631168 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature