Are hospital-acquired infections and longer antibiotic duration associated with increased 30-day readmission in sepsis survivors?
Sepsis survivors who develop hospital-acquired infections or receive longer antibiotic courses are at high risk for 30-day readmission, primarily due to infection.
We confirmed that the majority of unplanned hospital readmissions after sepsis are due to an infection. We found that patients with sepsis at admission who developed a hospital-acquired infection, and those who received a longer duration of antibiotics, appear to be high-risk groups for unplanned, all-cause 30-day readmissions and infection-related 30-day readmissions.
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