Saturday, July 2, 2011

People who say it better than I can - Sepsis version

Crit Care Med. 2010 Nov;38(11):2161-8. 
Volume of emergency department admissions for sepsis is related to inpatient mortality: results of a nationwide cross-sectional analysis.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. emilie-powell@md.northwestern.edu

"CONCLUSIONS: After adjustment for comorbidity and hospital-level factors, there was a significant relationship between emergency department sepsis case volume and overall and early inpatient mortality among patients admitted through the emergency department with sepsis. Patients admitted to hospitals in the highest-volume quartile had 27% lower odds of inpatient mortality in this large heterogeneous sample."

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