Meeting
Abstract Number: 290
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Severe sepsis is the number one cause of hospital mortality. Despite decades of bench and clinical research on sepsis, the only intervention that consistently decreases mortality is early recognition of the disease and antibiotic administration. We surveyed 136 house officers and 280 nurses and found that they were able to recognize sepsis in clinical […]