NIH R01 · 2024
I-TRANSFER Improving TRansitions ANd outcomeS oF sEpsis suRvivors
Acute care hospitals discharge over 1.5 million sepsis survivors annually. Sepsis survivors are twice as likely as non-sepsis patients to be readmitted within 30 days, with 32% of those readmissions occurring within 7 days. Annually, over one third of sepsis survivors transition to skilled home health care (HHC) after their hospitalization where nurses monitor for reinfection, support uninterrupted medication management, and work with patients, caregivers, other providers to support continued recovery. This proposed competing renewal is based on HHC best practice evidence generated by our previous study (RO1-NR016014) showing the value of early visits by registered nurses and early…
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