More people dying of sepsis, other common causes at Pa. hospitals, report card says – By David Wenner (Pennlive) / Dec 15, 2022
More people are dying while being treated for common ailments — including bloodstream infections, diabetes and abnormal heartbeats — at Pennsylvania hospitals than five years ago, according to a new annual report.
The biggest increase involved blood infections, officially known as sepsis, with the mortality rate increasing by more than 2% compared to five years earlier.
Some of the other significant jumps in mortality rate involved heart attack and respiratory failure patients, according to the report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, an independent state agency.
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