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Hundreds of thousands of patients are hospitalized with severe sepsis each year in the U.S. Survivors experience cognitive and functional decline, as well as decreased quality of life, for years thereafter. But how does surviving sepsis affect subsequent healthcare use?
To explore this question, researchers analyzed data from the Health and Retirement System (HRS) cohort, which has enrolled nearly 30,000 older Americans since 1992. They identified 1083 participants with severe sepsis who survived hospitalization and matched them one to one (by age, sex, length of hospitalization, intensive care use, Charlson Comorbidity Index score, and premorbid disability) with survivors of otherwise similar, nonsepsis hospitalizations.
The severe sepsis gr…