By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Most health care providers think of sepsis as a problem in the ICU, but a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that 80% of patients diagnosed with sepsis developed the condition outside the hospital. In addition, seven in 10 patients with sepsis used health care services or had chronic diseases that required frequent medical care (Vital Signs 2016 Aug 24. [published online]).
This is new and surprising information, CDC Director Tom