Prevalence, Underlying Causes, and Preventability of Sepsis-Associated Mortality in US Acute Care Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Sepsis is present in many hospitalizations that culminate in death. The contribution of sepsis to these deaths, and the extent to which they are preventable, is unknown.

Objective

To estimate the prevalence, underlying causes, and preventability of sepsis-associated mortality in acute care hospitals.

Design, setting, and participants

Cohort study in which a retrospective medical record review was conducted of 568 randomly selected adults admitted to 6 US academic and community hospitals from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2015, who died in the hospital or were discharged to hospice and not readmitted. Medical records were reviewed from January 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018.

Main outcomes and measures

Clinicians reviewed cases for sepsis during hospita

SUBMITTER: Rhee C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6484603 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature