Study: Sepsis transition program may lower mortality

Patients enrolled in a sepsis transition program using nurse navigators to deliver best-practice care during and after hospitalization were less likely to be re-hospitalized or die, a study found. The transition program included comorbidity monitoring, medication review, evaluation for new impairments/symptoms and goals of care assessment. At one month, 8.2% of patients in the usual care group died compared with 5.8% of patients in the sepsis transition program; hospital re-admission rates were 27.1% in the usual care group compared with 17.2% in the sepsis transition program. The authors presented the study, published online in CHEST, this week at the American College of Chest Physicians 2022 annual meeting. (Medscape article, 10/17/22)