Severe Sepsis: Hospital Characteristics
Sepsis is the body’s extreme immune response to an uncontrolled infection. Affecting approximately 1.7 million people in the United States annually, sepsis is a preventable, life-threatening illness that can cause tissue damage, organ failure and even death if not properly treated.
This report presents the rate of hospital-acquired severe sepsis cases per 1,000 hospitalizations in California hospitals from 2010 through 2017 by different characteristics, including hospital size, location, ownership, and designation as a teaching facility.