• Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018

    Sepsis-related mortality in China: a descriptive analysis.

    • Li Weng, Xin-Ying Zeng, Peng Yin, Li-Jun Wang, Chun-Yao Wang, Wei Jiang, Mai-Geng Zhou, Bin Du, and China Critical Care Clinical Trials Group (CCCCTG).
    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 1 Shuai Fu Yuan, Beijing, 100730, China.
    • Intensive Care Med. 2018 Jul 1; 44 (7): 1071-1080.

    PurposeA population-level description and analysis of sepsis-related mortality in China is key to the planning and assessment of interventional strategies.MethodsRetrospective analysis of multiple cause of death (MCOD) recorded in the population-based national mortality surveillance system (NMSS) of China. All sepsis-related deaths occurring in 605 disease surveillance points (DSPs) covering 323.8 million population across China were included in our study. Age-standardized mortality and national estimate of sepsis-related deaths were estimated using the census population in 2010 and 2015, respectively.ResultsIn 2015, a total of 1,937,299 deaths occurring in any of the 605 DSPs and standardized sepsis-related mortality rate was 66.7 (95% confidence interval [CI] 66.4-67.0) deaths per 100,000 population. This produced a national estimate of 1,025,997 sepsis-related deaths. Sepsis-related mortality rates exhibited significant geographic variation. In multilevel analysis, male sex (rate ratio [RR] 1.582, 95% CI 1.570-1.595), increasing age (RR 1.914 for 5-year group, 95% CI 1.910-1.917), and presence of comorbidity (RR 2.316, 95% CI 2.298-2.335) were independently associated with increased sepsis-related mortality. Higher disposable income (RR 0.717 for the fourth interquartile range vs. the first interquartile range, 95% CI 0.515-0.978) and mean years of education (RR 0.808 for the fourth interquartile range vs. the first interquartile range, 95% CI 0.684-0.955) were negatively associated with sepsis-related mortality. However, population-based hospital doctors were not significantly associated with sepsis-related mortality.ConclusionsThe standardized sepsis-related mortality rate in China was high and varied according to socioeconomic indices, even though some uncertainty remained.

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