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ReviewCurrent infectious disease reports2016

Understanding Long-Term Outcomes Following Sepsis: Implications and Challenges.

Manu Shankar-Hari, Gordon D Rubenfeld

Registry-linked trialOpen access · hybridAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Current infectious disease reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03133208 (Serum Biomarkers in Sepsis Associated Encephalopathy), which is not on this map. Cited by 108 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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108citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
9.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03133208 active not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

Serum Biomarkers in Sepsis Associated Encephalopathy (SAE)

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity of FloridaRan2017 to 2026Enrolled90ConditionsSepsis, Altered Mental Status, Sepsis-Associated Delirium, Sepsis Associated EncephalopathyArmsBlood draws
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

108 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 192 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Healthcare costs after sepsis: a systematic review.Critical care (London, England) · 2025
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  5. Trajectories of sepsis survivors in Australia: A scoping review.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2026
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  20. Dysregulated neural coding in the vagus nerve during long sepsis.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025
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48 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Manu Shankar-HariCritical Care Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, 1st Floor, East Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, London, SE17EH, UK. manu.shankar-hari@kcl.ac.uk.
Gordon D RubenfeldInterdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, D5 03, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada.
St Thomas' Hospital · GBSunnybrook Health Science Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sepsis is life-threating organ dysfunction due to infection. Incidence of sepsis is increasing and the short-term mortality is improving, generating more sepsis survivors. These sepsis survivors suffer from additional morbidities such as higher risk of readmissions, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and of death, for years following index sepsis episode. In the first year following index sepsis episode, approximately 60 % of sepsis survivors have at least one rehospitalisation episode, which is most often due to infection and one in six sepsis survivors die. Sepsis survivors also have a higher risk of cognitive impairment and cardiovascular disease contributing to the reduced life expectancy seen in this population, when assessed with life table comparisons. For optimal design of interventional trials to reduce these bad outcomes in sepsis survivors, in-depth understanding of major risk factors for these morbid events, their modifiability and a causal relationship to the pathobiology of sepsis is essential. This review highlights the recent advances, clinical and methodological challenges in our understanding of these morbid events in sepsis survivors.

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CausalityEpidemiologyLong-term outcomesMorbidityMortalitySepsisSurvivors

Identifiers

PMID27709504
PMCPMC5052282
OpenAlexW2527940597

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