Concordance of 30-Day Mortality and In-Hospital Mortality or Hospice Discharge After Sepsis

Hallie C Prescott; Megan Heath; Namita Jayaprakash; Raymund B Dantes; Chanu Rhee; Patricia J Posa; Scott A Flanders

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.2526

Concordance of 30-Day Mortality and In-Hospital Mortality or Hospice Discharge After Sepsis

JAMA. 2025 May 20;333(19):1724-1726. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.2526.

Authors

Hallie C Prescott^{1

2}, Megan Heath¹, Namita Jayaprakash³, Raymund B Dantes⁴, Chanu Rhee^{5

6}, Patricia J Posa¹, Scott A Flanders¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
² VA Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
³ Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁵ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 40202753
PMCID: PMC11983289 (available on 2025-10-09)
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.2526

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Plain language summary

This study uses a multihospital cohort to evaluate 2 candidate outcome measures being considered for benchmarking by the CDC and CMS for community-onset sepsis hospitalizations: 30-day mortality after admission and composite in-hospital mortality or hospice discharge.