Sepsis survivors are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital if they are provided with a combination of home nursing care and early physician follow-up after discharge, according to a study ...

Long-term nursing home stays and deaths after hospitalization for sepsis went up during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before it, a new study finds. People of all races and ethnicities ...

Researchers were able to cut the number of patients who died from sepsis, or infections that spread to the bloodstream, by 40% (from 12.5% to 7.1%) after the introduction of relatively simple steps at ...

A screenshot of the interactive map embedded lower in the story shows nursing homes without citations in green. Yellow, orange and red represent citations. Sepsis hits nearly two million people in the ...

Sepsis, commonly called blood poisoning, is a common affliction that can affect people of all ages. A series of simple measures tested at a Norwegian hospital can make a difference in successfully ...

Nurses helped improve their colleagues' understanding of sepsis at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia. Over the past several years, themed escape rooms for team-building events has been ...

A federal report found that cases where nursing home residents were hospitalized for sepsis-related care ended in death 'much more often' than hospitalizations for other conditions. Sepsis Infections ...

Doha, Qatar: A dashboard tool at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) enables medical teams to improve patient care and reduce harm by providing fast and accurate data on sepsis — a life — threatening ...

Deadly blood infections persist in Illinois' understaffed nursing homes, according to a joint news investigation. The Chicago Tribune and Kaiser Health News found that about 6,000 Illinois nursing ...

John Curtright of Kansas City, Kansas, could barely move. A stroke contorted his right leg muscles into a shape that made walking near impossible. The former roving musician appeared frozen, unable to ...

Shana Dorsey first caught sight of the purplish wound on her father’s lower back as he lay in a suburban Chicago hospital bed a few weeks before his death. Her father, Willie Jackson, had grimaced as ...

Sepsis, commonly called blood poisoning, is a common affliction that can affect people of all ages. A series of simple measures tested at a Norwegian hospital can make a difference in successfully ...