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Frequency And Types Of Healthcare Encounters In The Week Preceding A Sepsis Hospitalization: A Systematic Review, Alexander H. Flannery, Chad M. Venn, Amanda Gusovsky, Stephanie Henderson, Adam S. Kiser, Hallie C. Prescott, Chanu Rhee, Chris Delcher, Peter E. Morris
Frequency And Types Of Healthcare Encounters In The Week Preceding A Sepsis Hospitalization: A Systematic Review, Alexander H. Flannery, Chad M. Venn, Amanda Gusovsky, Stephanie Henderson, Adam S. Kiser, Hallie C. Prescott, Chanu Rhee, Chris Delcher, Peter E. Morris
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OBJECTIVES: Early recognition and treatment are critical to improving sepsis outcomes. We sought to identify the frequency and types of encounters that patients have with the healthcare system in the week prior to a sepsis hospitalization.
DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library.
STUDY SELECTION: Observational cohort studies of patients hospitalized with sepsis or septic shock that were assessed for an outpatient or emergency department encounter with the healthcare system in the week prior to hospital admission.
DATA EXTRACTION: The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with a healthcare encounter …