Revised National Estimates of Emergency Department Visits for Sepsis in the United States*

The emergency department is an important venue for initial sepsis recognition and care. We sought to determine contemporary estimates of the epidemiology of U.S. emergency department visits for sepsis.Analysis of data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.U.S. emergency department visits, 2009-2011.Adult (age, ≥ 18 yr) emergency department sepsis patients. We defined serious infection as an emergency department diagnosis of a...