Identifying Hesitation and Discomfort with Diagnosing Sepsis: Survey of a Pediatric Tertiary Care Center.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pediatric sepsis remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality despite the development of strategies proven to improve diagnosis and treatment. Specifically, early recognition and urgent therapy initiation are consistently associated with improved outcomes. However, providers bring these principles inconsistently to the bedside. The objective of this study was to describe practitioner knowledge of, and attitudes toward, sepsis as a means of identifying potentially modifiable factors delaying life-saving treatment. We hypothesized there would be difficulties with sepsis recognition and self-reported discomfort with making the diagnosis among all provider groups in a pediatric tertiary care center.

Methods

Emergency department and inpatient pediatric physici

SUBMITTER: Breuer RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221587 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature