Meeting
Abstract Number: 98
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Early diagnosis and treatment of sepsis improves patient outcomes. Diagnosis requires an objective component (currently at least two Systemic Inflammatory Response Criteria, SIRS) and a subjective, clinical suspicion of infection. While much attention has been placed recently on the ideal objective criteria to accurately identify sepsis, little is known about the agreement among providers […]