[The morbidity after sepsis motivates person-centred clinical follow-up]

The documented morbidity problems after sepsis motivated inclusion of routine clinical follow-up at 2-6 weeks after sepsis care in the national patient-centred clinical pathway for sepsis in Sweden. This routine has been evaluated in a pilot study, in which a nurse at a department of infectious diseases performed a structured telephone follow-up after sepsis care. The pilot study showed that the routine was resource demanding and illustrated that it is not optimal to use a uniform follow-up routine in a broad sepsis population. Thus, the clinical follow-up recommendations within the patient-centred clinical pathway for sepsis should be updated, adapted for broadly available health-care structures, and more person-centred.