Sepsis is a preventable public health problem

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Jordan Kempker, Emory University; Henry E. Wang, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Greg Martin, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2018-05-06
• Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins: No Hybrid Open Access
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2018 The Author(s).
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2048-3
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
• ISSN: 0887-9303
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 116
• End Page: 116
• Grant/Funding Information: HEW received support through award R01-NR-012726 from the National Institute of Nursing Research.; JAK and GSM receive support from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1 TR002378.
• Keywords: Sepsis; Critical Care Medicine; COHORT; RISK; Infection control; Public health; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Prevention; SEPTIC SHOCK; Science & Technology; Epidemiology; General & Internal Medicine
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Epidemiology

Abstract

There is a paradigm shift happening for sepsis. Sepsis is no longer solely conceptualized as problem of individual patients treated in emergency departments and intensive care units but also as one that is addressed as public health issue with population- and systems-based solutions. We offer a conceptual framework for sepsis as a public health problem by adapting the traditional model of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.