Lack of consensus among health care providers in identifying sepsis poses threat to treatment
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Though the toll of sepsis is known to be enormous -- costing the US health care system $24.3 billion each year, and is the nation's third-leading killer -- the true magnitude of incidence of and death from the illness remains unknown. There is substantial variability in these numbers, depending on the method used to identify the condition in patients treated at hospital across the United States, according to a new study.