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Objectives
To investigate the association between the timing and adequacy of antibiotics administered to patients presenting with culture‐positive sepsis and septic shock to the ED and in‐hospital mortality and/or intensive care unit (ICU) admission.
Methods
Multicentre retrospective cohort study of ED presentations at four metropolitan hospitals in Sydney, Australia between January 2017 and November...
Objective
Electronic medical records‐based alerts have shown mixed results in identifying ED sepsis. Augmenting clinical patient‐flagging with automated alert systems may improve sepsis screening. We evaluate the performance of a hybrid alert to identify patients in ED with sepsis or in‐hospital secondary outcomes from infection.
Methods
We extracted a dataset of all patients with sepsis during...