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Association of triage #hypothermia with in-hospital mortality among patients in the emergency department with suspected #sepsis

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To identify if triage hypothermia (<36.0 °C) among emergency department (ED) encounters with sepsis are independently associated with mortality.. ..Of 1.2 billion ED encounters (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0–1.3 billion), 3.1 million (95% CI 2.7–3.5 million) met the explicit sepsis definition; 7.4% (95% CI 75.2–9.7%) had triage hypothermia. The adjusted odds ratio (aOR) for hypothermia… Continue reading Association of triage #hypothermia with in-hospital mortality among patients in the emergency department with suspected #sepsis