Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Aug 2020
Review Meta AnalysisEpidemiology and burden of sepsis acquired in hospitals and intensive care units: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Sepsis is recognized as a global public health problem, but the proportion due to hospital-acquired infections remains unclear. We aimed to summarize the epidemiological evidence related to the burden of hospital-acquired (HA) and ICU-acquired (ICU-A) sepsis. ⋯ HA sepsis is of major public health importance, and the burden is particularly high in ICUs. There is an urgent need to improve the implementation of global and local infection prevention and management strategies to reduce its high burden among hospitalized patients.