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One of every three patients who dies in the hospital has sepsis. The life-threatening response to infection is difficult to detect in its earliest stages, and every hour the condition goes untreated increases a patient s mortality risk by 4%.
Currently, the University of Missouri Health System – with five hospitals with 602 beds in total – is using three Cerner technologies in an effort to better identify and treat sepsis: St. John Sepsis Agent/Sepsis Advisor, Pediatric Sepsis Algorithms and the Rapid Response tool.
The Sepsis Algorithms and Advisor do a fantastic job at identifying and assisting with the treatment of patients who already are septic, explained Benjamin Wax, RN, senior clinical informaticist on the Cerner Applications Team at the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Missouri.  ....

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