Sepsis survivors are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital if they are provided with a combination of home nursing care and early physician follow-up after discharge, according to a study ...

Sepsis, commonly called blood poisoning, is a common affliction that can affect people of all ages. A series of simple measures tested at a Norwegian hospital can make a difference in successfully ...

Researchers were able to cut the number of patients who died from sepsis, or infections that spread to the bloodstream, by 40% (from 12.5% to 7.1%) after the introduction of relatively simple steps at ...

Long-term nursing home stays and deaths after hospitalization for sepsis went up during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before it, a new study finds. People of all races and ethnicities ...

A new independent study in the Journal of Critical Care Medicine found that Epic's sepsis early warning system led to faster antibiotic administration and better patient outcomes without an increase ...

A screenshot of the interactive map embedded lower in the story shows nursing homes without citations in green. Yellow, orange and red represent citations. Sepsis hits nearly two million people in the ...

In what could be a template for other hospitals to follow, nine acute care facilities in the Bay Area teamed to dramatically reduce their sepsis mortality rates, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nurses helped improve their colleagues' understanding of sepsis at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia. Over the past several years, themed escape rooms for team-building events has been ...

Deadly blood infections persist in Illinois' understaffed nursing homes, according to a joint news investigation. The Chicago Tribune and Kaiser Health News found that about 6,000 Illinois nursing ...

Shana Dorsey first caught sight of the purplish wound on her father’s lower back as he lay in a suburban Chicago hospital bed a few weeks before his death. Her father, Willie Jackson, had grimaced as ...

Sepsis, commonly called blood poisoning, is a common affliction that can affect people of all ages. A series of simple measures tested at a Norwegian hospital can make a difference in successfully ...