The Impact of Acute Organ Dysfunction on Long-Term Survival in Sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the impact of each of six types of acute organ dysfunction (hepatic, renal, coagulation, neurologic, cardiac, and respiratory) on long-term mortality after surviving sepsis hospitalization.

Design

Multicenter, retrospective study.

Settings

Twenty-one hospitals within an integrated healthcare delivery system in Northern California.

Patients

Thirty thousand one hundred sixty-three sepsis patients admitted through the emergency department between 2010 and 2013, with mortality follow-up through April 2015.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Acute organ dysfunction was quantified using modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores. The main outcome was long-term mortality among sepsis patients who survived ho

SUBMITTER: Schuler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5953770 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature