EHRs could play a role of accurate tool to recognize septic shock trends

In spite of the fact that sepsis is believed to be one of the most dangerous and expensive medical conditions for hospitals, doctors mostly fail to accurately document this immune system response to infection that kills more than 250,000 Americans per year.
Steven Simpson, MD, professor of medicine and interim director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Kansas claims, “Almost 30% of the time, the physicians who are writing their notes don’t use the words sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock. And, so it does not appear in the record.