Benchmarking the Incidence and Mortality of Severe Sepsis in the United States*

By D. Gaieski, J. Edwards, M. Kallan, Brendan G. Carr. Critical Care Medicine, 2013

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Epidemiology, Immunology

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• The Pathogenesis of Sepsis and Potential Therapeutic Targets (2019, background): “Moreover, even after treatment, patients with sepsis face long-term and serious problems in the form of physical, psychological, and cognitive disorders [3,4].”
• Will 10 Million People Die a Year due to Antimicrobial Resistance by 2050? (2016, background): “Furthermore, each scenario assumes that the mortality risk per infectionwill remain unchanged, despite evidence that mortality rates associated with BSIs and sepsis are decreasing due to improved supportive care [11,12].”
• Mortality related to severe sepsis and septic shock among critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand, 2000-2012. (2014, methodology): “Severe sepsis with and without shock were defined by the presence of 2 or more systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria within the first 24 hours after ICU admission and either (1) APACHE III admission diagnosis consistent with sepsis or (2) APACHE admission diagnosis consistent with infecti”
• Epidemiology of severe sepsis (2013, methodology): “5-fold difference in the incidence and mortality of severe sepsis depending on the method of database abstraction used.(22)”
• Systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria in defining severe sepsis. (2015, background): “High-quality clinical databases are of value in comparative audit, clinical practice, in managing services and in evaluating health technologies [1,2].”
• Assessment of Global Incidence and Mortality of Hospital-treated Sepsis. Current Estimates and Limitations. (2016, background): “17 Generally, there is an ongoing controversy about the accuracy of ICD-identification of sepsis cases (8, 28, 30, 62), due to challenges with defining sepsis, severe sepsis, and organ dysfunction in administrative data.”