Study reveals burden and geographic patterns of sepsis among hospitalized non-child cancer patients in China

The relationships between overall in-hospital mortality rate in non-child cancer patients with sepsis and its contributors [(a): scatter plot], and visualization of overall in-hospital mortality rates and its contributors in non-child cancer patients for each province and cluster analysis [(b): heatmap]. Credit: Science China Press Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of infections, poses a severe threat to cancer patients, whose compromised immune systems make them highly susceptible. In a study published in Science Bulletin, researchers led by Hong-Da Chen from the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Read More