We read with great interest the paper published by Mixon et al. [
[1]
], who reported that sepsis alerts called in the field via emergency medical services
(EMS) decrease time to antibiotics and increase the likelihood of antibiotic administration
occurring within 60 min of arrival, when compared to sepsis alert called in the emergency
department (ED), but don’t affect strong outcomes including mortality, in hospital
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: June 09, 2020
Accepted:
June 6,
2020
Received in revised form:
June 5,
2020
Received:
May 24,
2020
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