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Sepsis Is Largely Unknown But It Puts One Million People In The Hospital Each Year
By The Conversation
Created Jul 1 2015 - 2:30pm
Most Americans have never heard of it, but according to new federal data, sepsis is the most expensive cause of hospitalization in the US.
Sepsis is a complication of infection that leads to organ failure. One million patients are hospitalized for sepsis each year (across all types of health insurance). This is more than the number of hospitalizations for heart attack and stroke combined. Sepsis can be a particular risk for older people. In 2013 alone, 400,000 Medicare beneficiaries were hospitalized because of sepsis at a cost of US$5.5 billion.

And it is deadly. Between one in eight and one in four patients with sepsis will die during hospitalization. In fact sepsis contributes to one-third to one-half of all in-hospital deaths.

Despite these grave consequences, fewer than half of Americans know what the word sepsis means.
http://www.science20.com/the_conversation/sepsis_is_largely_unknown_but_it_puts_one_million_people_in_the_hospital_each_year-156400