Patients who get sepsis while hospitalized are 43% more likely to return to the hospital for a stroke or any cardiac event, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

About one third of individuals who die while hospitalized have sepsis during that hospitalization, yet more than 1400 hospitals in the United States report not having a sepsis program, according to ...

More than 1400 hospitals in the United States do not have a sepsis program to lead the intervention for a medical emergency that affects at least 1.7 million people, according to a recent survey by ...

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has found that more than four percent of all hospital admissions in southern Sweden are associated with sepsis. It is a significantly underdiagnosed ...

Staff in Canterbury say using the software frees up time to focus on caring for patients.

In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in the US develop sepsis, and at least 350,000 die in the hospital or are moved into hospice care, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

Sepsis is a leading cause of death and disability and a key target of state and federal quality measures for hospitals. In-hospital mortality of patients with sepsis is frequently measured for ...

The agency outlined “core elements” needed to detect and treat the condition, a factor in 1.7 million hospitalizations in the U.S. each year. By Emily Baumgaertner On a Wednesday afternoon in 2012, 12 ...

A recent Npj Digital Medicine study evaluated the effectiveness of COMPOSER, a deep learning model for early sepsis prediction. It assessed the impact of this model on the quality of patient care and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael L. Millenson writes about healthcare as a skeptical optimist. This article is more than 3 years old. After a hospital ...