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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine· 2015Q1

Assessment of Global Incidence and Mortality of Hospital-treated Sepsis: Current Estimates and Limitations

Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek, André Scherag, Neill K. J. Adhikari, Christiane S. Hartog et al.

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Hospital-treated sepsis incidence is 437 cases per 100,000 person-years in high-income countries, with a 17% mortality rate, but data from low-income countries are absent, limiting global estimates to a tentative 31.5 million cases and 5.3 million deaths annually.

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Field: Epidemiology

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