Keywords reflecting sepsis presentation based on mode of emergency department arrival: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Current sepsis screening tools are predominantly based on vital signs. However, patients with serious infections frequently present with normal vital signs and there has been an increased interest to include other variables such as symptoms in screening tools to detect sepsis. The majority of patients with sepsis arrive to the emergency department by emergency medical services. Our hypothesis was that the presentation of sepsis, including symptoms, may differ between patients arriving to the emergency department by emergency medical services and patients arriving by other means. This information is of interest to adapt future sepsis screening tools to the population in which they will be implemented. The aim of the current study was to compare the prevalence of keywords

SUBMITTER: Wallgren UM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8903703 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature