Table 1.
Characteristics of studies included in the review.
| References | Journal |
Publication Language |
Study type | Study period | Sample size | Sepsis type | Sepsis diagnostic criteria | Mean or median age | Event |
Male/
female |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital patients | ||||||||||
| Xiu et al. (17) | Strait Journal of Preventive Medicine | Chinese | Retrospective cohort study | 1992–1997 | 87183 | sepsis | / | 36.83 | 230 | 152/78 |
| Zhou et al. (20) | Critical Care Medicine | English | Retrospective cohort study | 2012.07.01–2014.06.30 | 21191 | Sepsis/severe sepsis/septic shock | American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine consensus |
80(66–85) | 1716 | 988/728 |
| Jiang et al. (21) | Journal of Critical Care | English | Retrospective study | 2013.01–2016.12. | 171707 | sepsis | (1)Fever (>38 °C), chills, hypotension after a hospital stay of>48 h; (2) The same pathogenic organism was isolated from one or more blood cultures. | 67 ± 18 | 704 | 431/273 |
| Tian et al. (25) | Chinese Medical Journal | English | Retrospective cohort study | 2012.07.01–2014.06.30 | 21191 | Sepsis/severe sepsis/septic shock | Spesis−3.0 | 81(74–86) | 1433 | 885/548 |
| ICU patients | ||||||||||
| Cheng et al. (18) | Crit Care Med | English | Prospective observational study | 2004.12.1–2005.11.30 | 3665 | severe sepsis | American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference | 64(47–74) | 318 | 206/112 |
| Zhou et al. (19) | PLOS ONE | English | Prospective observational cohort study | 2009.07.01–2009.08.31 | 1297 | severe sepsis\septic shock | American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine consensus conference | 66(51–77) | 484 | 336/148 |
| Wang et al. (22) | Frontiers in medicine | English | Prospective cohort study | 2014.01.01–2015.08.31 | 4910 | Sepsis/sepsis shock | Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC): International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 |
62.5 ± 17.8 | 2086 | 1362/724 |
| Xie et al. (23) | Critical Care Medicine | English | cross–section survey study | 2015.12.1–2016.1.31 | 11272 | Sepsis/severe sepsis/septic shock | sepsis−1 | 60.8 ± 18.4 | 2322 | 1499/823 |
| Cao et al. (24) | Med Sci Monit | English | Prospective Multicenter Study | 2017.10.10–2018.01.09 | 1604 | sepsis/sepsis shock | sepsis−3.0 | 67(55–76) | 294 | 185/109 |