The new code, which went into effect Oct. 1, is meant to foster better communication between hospitals, home-care and other post-acute providers regarding ongoing care for sepsis survivors. Four ...

Throughout Cleveland Clinic’s healthcare system, a protocol known as “code sepsis” allows physicians to diagnose and treat the infection before it becomes life threatening. The hospital’s standardized ...

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 ...

Credit: Getty Images To address the gap in sepsis management bundle compliance at a community hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, the authors created an intervention targeting patients who presented with ...

Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals, today released America’s 50 and 100 Best Hospitals™ for 2016, along ...

Sepsis is a factor among roughly 1 in 3 hospital deaths, yet, as of last year, more than a quarter of hospitals didn’t have a formal sepsis committee in place and nearly half said they did not provide ...

New York hospitals must report sepsis-related data to the state Department of Health. The establishment of mandatory sepsis protocols at all hospitals in New York State is estimated to have saved more ...

Since Froedtert Hospital adopted the test, the mortality rate for sepsis patients has decreased by 42% and hospital length of stay has been reduced by nearly two days for patients with a suspected ...

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 ...

ATLANTA-- The incidence of sepsis -- a severe, whole-body immune response to infection -- has increased by an annualized average of 8.7% a year in the U.S. over the past 22 years, according to ...