Internal and Emergency Medicine
Clinically recognized sepsis in older adults admitted to medical wards: patient characteristics and hospital outcomes from the REPOSI register
Abstract Older adults admitted to internal medicine wards represent a growing population at high risk of sepsis, characterized by frailty, multimorbidity, functional impairment and reduced physiological reserve. While sepsis outcomes have been extensively studied in intensive care settings, less is known about prognostic determinants in non-ICU wards. Using data from the Italian REPOSI registry (2009–2023), we analyzed patients aged ≥65 years hospitalized in internal medicine and geriatric wards. Clinically recogni …