Yuri Battaglia, Franco Guerzoni, Manuel Gigante, Marco Veronesi, Chiara Oppi, Elena Forini, Ines Ullo, Emidia Vagnoni, Alda Storari
Introduction: Over the last decades, sepsis has become a real medical emergency, with a high mortality rate and often requiring admission to an intensive care unit. An increasing number of CKD patients contracts sepsis due to several clinical risk factors (use of catheters, immunosuppressive therapy, comorbidity, etc.) and is treated in Nephrology wards, generating additional costs that are not covered by hospital Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) reimbursement. The aim of the study is to evaluate the costs of sepsis in one Nephrology Unit and to detect the mortality rate of CKD patients with sepsis...
December 9, 2019: Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia: Organo Ufficiale Della Società Italiana di Nefrologia