Researchers examined data for more than 6,300 sepsis patients from 21 Kaiser Permanente Northern California hospitals in 2010 who survived a sepsis diagnosis to hospital discharge.
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- 86.4 percent of patient survived a primary sepsis diagnosis.
- 1-year survival was 94.1 percent for patients less than 45 years of age.
- 1-year survival was 54.4 percent for patients 85 years and older.
- 17.9 percent of sepsis patients were readmitted within 30 days, though a minority of rehospitalizations were for infection.
- Postsepsis healthcare utilization increased three-fold and was strongly affected by age.
- Other factors associated with early readmission and high postsepsis healthcare utilization included severity of illness, length of stay and need for intensive care.
- The strongest predictors of postsepsis readmission included severity of presepsis illness and high healthcare utilization before sepsis admission.
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