Frequency and Types of Healthcare Encounters in the Week Preceding a Sepsis Hospitalization: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early recognition and treatment are critical to improving sepsis outcomes. We sought to identify the frequency and types of encounters that patients have with the healthcare system in the week prior to a sepsis hospitalization.

Data sources

PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library.

Study selection

Observational cohort studies of patients hospitalized with sepsis or septic shock that were assessed for an outpatient or emergency department encounter with the healthcare system in the week prior to hospital admission.

Data extraction

The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with a healthcare encounter in the time period assessed (up to 1 week) prior to a hospitalization with sepsis.

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SUBMITTER: Flannery AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820912 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature