Johns Hopkins University researchers have shown that hospitals can more accurately classify sepsis patients into four distinct categories that prioritize early interventions for those at the highest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael L. Millenson writes about healthcare as a skeptical optimist. This article is more than 3 years old. After a hospital ...

A recent Npj Digital Medicine study evaluated the effectiveness of COMPOSER, a deep learning model for early sepsis prediction. It assessed the impact of this model on the quality of patient care and ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that requires you act fast. You can't just "sleep on it," like I almost did, back when I didn't even know what sepsis was. Today, I feel fortunate I'm here to ...

Sepsis is the deadliest and most expensive condition treated in hospital critical care units, with septic shock carrying a 34% mortality rate. Early sepsis detection is critical to saving lives and ...

A recent study found that up to 90% of sepsis patients may be overtreated. The study, published April 15 in Clinical Infectious Diseases and led by researchers from Brigham’s Women’s Hospital and ...

A large meta-analysis identifies patient, clinical, and biochemical factors linked to early mortality in septic shock, helping clinicians stratify risk.

A new study based on data from more than 20,000 patients has found statins may lower the risk of death in critically ill sepsis patients. To conduct the study, researchers pulled data from the Medical ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced that Phoebe Putney Health System, a not-for-profit health system in southwest Georgia, has selected POC Advisor™ for earlier ...

ORLANDO -- Only about a quarter of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with septic shock were given corticosteroids, and this varied widely by physician and ICU, according to a retrospective cohort ...