Study: Severe Sepsis Patients Frequently Rehospitalized with Preventable Conditions

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that more than 40 percent of re-hospitalizations of severe sepsis patients are for diagnoses that could have been prevented.

The study's authors found that these patients are frequently re-hospitalized within 90 days of having severe sepsis. However, 42 percent of them had "potentially preventable readmission diagnoses," including pneumonia, hypertension, dehydration, asthma, urinary tract infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation, perforated appendix, diabetes, angina, congestive heart failure, sepsis, acute renal failure, skin or soft tissue infection and aspiration pneumonitis.

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