Preventing, identifying, and managing sepsis in the community: research and clinical priorities

Kristina E Rudd¹, Adrienne G Randolph¹, Derek C Angus¹+17

• ¹Center for Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (K E Rudd MD, Prof D C Angus MD); Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (Prof A G Randolph MD); Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (Prof A G Randolph); Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (Prof A G Randolph); Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany (Prof M Bauer MD); Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA (C F Chesley MD); Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA (C F Chesley); Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (C F Chesley); Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (M R Filbin MD); Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Prof G Jenq MD, H C Prescott MD); Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA (J A Kempker MD); Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (Prof A C Levine MD); Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (Prof A C Levine); Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA (Prof P Levy MD); Intensive Care Department, Hospital São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (Prof F R Machado MD); Departments of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, and Epidemiology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA (Prof N M Mohr MD); Sepsis Scout, San Francisco, CA, USA (R Quinn PhD); CytoVale, San Francisco, CA, USA (R Quinn); Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, London, UK (Prof K Rowan PhD); Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK (Prof K Rowan); Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (Prof M Shankar-Hari PhD); Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (F Sheikh MSc); Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA (P Sleboda PhD); Families Fighting Flu, Prospect, KY, USA (J S Teichman MD); Service of Immunology and Allergy, Center of Human Immunology Lausanne, Department of Medicine and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (Prof T Calandra MD); VA Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (H C Prescott).