WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—A measure of socioeconomic distress has been found to be an independent predictor of 90-day mortality in surgical patients with sepsis, according to data presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Surgical Infection Society.
The retrospective analysis of sepsis patients admitted to the surgical ICU at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, in Columbus, showed that high scores on the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) were associated with nearly