American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
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Adoption of early mobility interventions into intensive care unit (ICU) practice has been slow and varied. ⋯ Collectively, several modifiable and nonmodifiable factors provide excellent prediction of next-day early mobility performance.
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Little is known about differences in patient characteristics before and after implementation of the new definition of sepsis (Sepsis-3) and whether the new definition is affecting clinical practice in intensive care units. ⋯ Implementation of the Sepsis-3 definition was associated with an increased number of patients with sepsis. Other findings suggested that patients in the Sepsis-2 group had more severe illness, with increased 1-year all-cause mortality, compared with those in the Sepsis-3 group.