Clinical characteristics and risk factors associated with ICU-acquired infections in sepsis: a retrospective cohort study

Y He, J Xu, X Shang, X Fang, C Gao, D Sun… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired infection is a common cause of poor prognosis of sepsis
in the ICU. However, sepsis-associated ICU-acquired infections have not been fully …

Sepsis in intensive care unit patients: worldwide data from the intensive care over nations audit

Y Sakr, U Jaschinski, X Wittebole… - Open forum …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background There is a need to better define the epidemiology of sepsis in intensive care
units (ICUs) around the globe. Methods The Intensive Care over Nations (ICON) audit …

Organism type of infection is associated with prognosis in sepsis: an analysis from the MIMIC-IV database

Q Guo, P Qu, W Cui, M Liu, H Zhu, W Chen… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background Sepsis has a high mortality rate, which is expensive to treat, and is a major
drain on healthcare resources; it seriously impacts the quality of human life. The clinical …

The prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes of sepsis in critically ill patients in China: a multicenter prospective cohort study

M Wang, L Jiang, B Zhu, W Li, B Du, Y Kang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Sepsis is a main cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. The
epidemiology of sepsis in high-income countries is well-known, but information on sepsis in …

Comparative prognostic accuracy of sepsis scores for hospital mortality in adults with suspected infection in non-ICU and ICU at an academic public hospital

CP Kovach, GS Fletcher, KE Rudd, RM Grant… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Sepsis is a global healthcare challenge and reliable tools are needed to
identify patients and stratify their risk. Here we compare the prognostic accuracy of the …

Intensive care acquired infection is an independent risk factor for hospital mortality: a prospective cohort study

P Ylipalosaari, TI Ala-Kokko, J Laurila, P Ohtonen… - Critical Care, 2006 - Springer
Introduction The aim of this study was to elucidate the impact of intensive care unit (ICU)-
acquired infection on hospital mortality. Methods Patients with a longer than 48 hour stay in …

Epidemiology of sepsis and infection in ICU patients from an international multicentre cohort study

C Alberti, C Brun-Buisson, H Burchardi, C Martin… - Intensive care …, 2002 - Springer
Objectives: To examine the incidence of infections and to describe them and their outcome
in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Design and setting: International prospective cohort …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of different machine learning algorithms to classify patients suspected of having sepsis infection in the intensive care unit

M Gholamzadeh, H Abtahi, R Safdari - Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Sepsis is a life-threatening disease that occurs as a result of the body's
response to an infection. This study aims to develop a classification model for predicting …

Impact of different consensus definition criteria on sepsis diagnosis in a cohort of critically ill patients—insights from a new mathematical probabilistic approach to …

FS Centner, JJ Schoettler, AM Fairley, HA Lindner… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Sepsis-3 definition uses SOFA score to discriminate sepsis from uncomplicated
infection, replacing SIRS criteria that were criticized for being inaccurate. Eligibility of sepsis …

Survival analysis of 314 episodes of sepsis in medical intensive care unit in university hospital: impact of intensive care unit performance and antimicrobial therapy

V Degoricija, M Sharma, A Legac, M Gradišer… - Croatian medical …, 2006 - hrcak.srce.hr
Aim: To evaluate epidemiology of sepsis in medical intensive care unit (ICU) in University
Hospital, and the impact of ICU performance and appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy on …