• Je Sung You, Yoo Seok Park, Sung Phil Chung, Hye Sun Lee, Soyoung Jeon, Won Young Kim, Tae Gun Shin, You Hwan Jo, Gu Hyun Kang, Sung Hyuk Choi, Gil Joon Suh, Byuk Sung Ko, Kap Su Han, Jong Hwan Shin, Taeyoung Kong, and Korean Shock Society (KoSS) Investigators.
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 211, Eonju-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 06273, Republic of Korea.
• Crit Care. 2022 Feb 11; 26 (1): 43.

BackgroundNighttime hospital admission is often associated with increased mortality risk in various diseases. This study investigated compliance rates with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) 3-h bundle for daytime and nighttime emergency department (ED) admissions and the clinical impact of compliance on mortality in patients with septic shock.MethodsWe conducted an observational study using data from a prospective, multicenter registry for septic shock provided by the Korean Shock Society from 11 institutions from November 2015 to December 2017. The outcome was the compliance rate with the SSC 3-h bundle according to the time of arrival in the ED.ResultsA total of 2049 patients were enrolled. Compared with daytime admission, nighttime admission was associated with higher compliance with the administration of antibiotics within 3 h (adjusted odds ratio (adjOR), 1.326; 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.088-1.617, p = 0.005) and with the complete SSC bundle (adjOR, 1.368; 95% CI, 1.115-1.678; p = 0.003), likely to result from the increased volume of all patients and sepsis patients admitted during daytime hours. The hazard ratios of the completion of SSC bundle for 28-day mortality and in-hospital mortality were 0.750 (95% CI 0.590-0.952, p = 0.018) and 0.714 (95% CI 0.564-0.904, p = 0.005), respectively.ConclusionSeptic shock patients admitted to the ED during the daytime exhibited lower sepsis bundle compliance than those admitted at night. Both the higher number of admitted patients and the higher patients to medical staff ratio during daytime may be factors that are responsible for lowering the compliance.© 2022. The Author(s).

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