Sepsis Hospitalization Five-Year Trends in Kansas and Missouri
Sepsis is a dangerous medical condition that is difficult to predict, diagnose and treat. Patients with sepsis are about eight times more likely to die compared to patients without sepsis.
Sepsis hospitalizations are on the rise nationwide. Recent studies showed that hospitalization rates for sepsis have nearly doubled.
In Kansas and Missouri, disparities exist across age, gender and admission type for sepsis hospitalizations.
Measures of sepsis-related hospital mortality and length-of-stay are improving, possibly catalyzed by targeted interventions in Kansas and Missouri that stress early sepsis recognition and treatment, and heightened awareness of efficacious sepsis-related care.
