The use of sepsis diagnostic criteria in Primary Health Care and their impact on clinical outcomes
a rapid review
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Primary Health Care, Emergencies, Sepsis.Abstract
Introduction: The management of medical emergencies, including sepsis, are included in the Primary Health Care (PHC) service portfolio. Assessment of patients with suspected sepsis ideally includes clinical history, physical examination, vital signs, and application of diagnostic criteria for sepsis. Objective: To synthesize the evidence regarding the use of sepsis diagnostic criteria by PHC professionals and their impact on the interventions carried out and clinical outcomes. Methods: This is a Rapid Review of the literature available in the Embase, Lilacs, and SciELO databases, using the health descriptors “sepsis” and “primary care”, with the Boolean operator AND. Results: 6 articles were selected, which varied between observational studies, quality improvement projects, cross-sectional questionnaires, and retrospective cohorts. It was evident that the application of sepsis diagnostic criteria in PHC interferes with the transport time to the hospital, the chance of care by a more experienced/specialist doctor, the timely diagnosis of sepsis, the length of hospital stay, the chance of admission to an Unit Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and mortality. Only half of professionals know how to define sepsis correctly and less than 1/3 were familiar with one of the most used criteria, the qSOFA. The most considered aspects for the suspicion of sepsis were general condition and intuition. Conclusions: PHC plays a crucial role in the management of sepsis; however, it is essential to train healthcare professionals on diagnostic criteria for timely identification and adequate management of suspected cases.
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