Independent predictors for 90-day readmission of emergency department patients admitted with sepsis: a prospective cohort study

• Published in: BMC infectious diseases Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 315 - 10
• Main Authors: Stenholt, Peer Oscar Overgaard, Abdullah, S. M. Osama Bin, Sørensen, Rune Husås, Nielsen, Finn Erland
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 01.04.2021; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Admission and discharge; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis of Variance; Antibiotics; Blood pressure; Cardiac arrhythmia; Care and treatment; Chronic illnesses; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Confidence intervals; Congestive heart failure; Creatinine; Diuretics; Diuretics - therapeutic use; Electrocardiography; Emergency department; Emergency medical care; Emergency medical services; Emergency service; Emergency Service, Hospital; Emigration; Female; Hospitals; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Male; Metastases; Middle Aged; Neoplasms - pathology; Organ Dysfunction Scores; Oxygen saturation; Patient Readmission - statistics & numerical data; Patients; Population studies; Predictors; Prospective Studies; Readmission; Registration; Regression analysis; Regression models; Risk Factors; Sepsis; Sepsis - pathology; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Time Factors; Tumors; Denmark; Sepsis; Readmission; Emergency department; Predictors

The primary objective of our study was to examine predictors for readmission in a prospective cohort of sepsis patients admitted to an emergency department (ED) and identified by the new Sepsis-3 criteria. A single-center observational population-based cohort study among all adult (≥18 years) patien...