A new interactive tool from AHRQ allows people to explore trends in hospital care for sepsis. This new resource is based on AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project data, and allows for the analysis of sepsis-related data over time in two important areas:
- Morbidity and in-hospital mortality, including inpatient stays and emergency department utilization, readmissions, post-acute care transitions after hospitalization and in-hospital deaths
- Outcomes of sepsis hospitalizations, including length of stay, average hospital cost and total hospital costs by patient characteristics
New Interactive Data Resource Illustrates Trends in Sepsis Hospital Care. Content last reviewed March 2025. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/news/sepsis-data-tool.html
LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant: Early Recognition of Sepsis
As sepsis is a time-critical emergency, identification and response to sepsis should be urgent and protocol-based. To promote education and improvement efforts surrounding the early recognition of sepsis, LAMMICO’s Patient Safety Award and Grant focuses on this topic.
The hospital, ambulatory surgery center or long-term care facility that demonstrates the greatest reduction in annual mortality rates resulting from improved sepsis diagnosis and treatment will be awarded a $10,000 grant to the winner and a $5,000 grant to the second place participant to be used for nursing professional development. Applications are due May 31, 2025. Please visit lammico.com/grant for more details.
