European Sepsis Care Survey

The objective of this survey is to investigate the current state of sepsis care around Europe. The study is aiming at hospital structure, emergency departments, wards, intensive care units and clinical diagnostic and microbiological service.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sepsis

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1450

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Edegem, Belgium
    • Emergency Department Antwerp University Hospital
• Czechia
  • Ostrava-Poruba, Czechia
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital of Ostrava
• Denmark
  • Odense, Denmark
    • Department of Emergency Medicine University of Southern Denmark
• Finland
  • Helsinki, Finland
    • Perioperative, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine Helsinki University Hospital
• France
  • Garches, France
    • Hopital Raymond Poncare Service de Reanimation Medicale
• Germany
  • Greifswald, Germany
    • University Medicine Greifswald
• Greece
  • Athens, Greece
    • 4th Department of Internal Medicine ATTIKON University Hospital
• Israel
  • Tel Aviv, Israel
    • National Institute for Antibiotic Resistance & Infection Control, Ministry of Health
• Italy
  • Milan, Italy
    • Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda Milano
• Moldova, Republic of
  • Chișinău, Moldova, Republic of
    • State University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics "Nicolae Testemiţanu"
• Netherlands
  • Groningen, Netherlands
    • University Medical Center Groningen
• Norway
  • Trondheim, Norway
    • St Olavs Hospital
• Poland
  • Wrocław, Poland
    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy Wroclaw Medical University
• Portugal
  • Porto, Portugal
    • Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina: Porto
• Romania
  • Bucharest, Romania
    • "Prof CC Iliescu" Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Bucharest
• Russian Federation
  • St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
    • Vladimir L. Vanevskii Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimatology, North-Western State Medical University named after Ilya I. Mechnikov
• Spain
  • Sabadell, Spain
    • Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí · critical care center, sabadell hospital, Corporació Sanitaria Universitaria Parc Tauli
• Sweden
  • Lund, Sweden
    • Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University
• Turkey
  • Ankara, Turkey
    • Hacettepe University, Department of Internal Medicine Sihhiye, Ankara
• United Kingdom
  • London, United Kingdom
    • King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Hospital, Department of Critical Care, London

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

European hospitals

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hospitals of all strata

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Cross-Sectional

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Questionnaire	Structure of sepsis care in Europe	2021

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Medicine Greifswald
• Collaborators: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Becton, Dickinson and Company; European Sepsis Alliance; European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Research Network; European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ESGBIES Study Group; Sepsisdialog, Germany; European Shock Society; European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Christian S Scheer, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Department, University of Greifswald, Germany; Principal Investigator: Adam Linder, European Sepsis Alliance; Principal Investigator: Daniela Filipescu, European Sepsis Alliance, European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care; Principal Investigator: Evangelos Giamarellos-Bourboulis, European Sepsis Alliance, European Shock Society; Principal Investigator: Evgeny Idelevich, ESCMID/Study Group for Bloodstream Infections, Endocarditis and Sepsis; Principal Investigator: Konrad Reinhart, Global Sepsis Alliance; Principal Investigator: Matthias Gründling, Quality management project Sepsisdialog; Principal Investigator: Ricard Ferrer, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; Principal Investigator: Said Laribi, European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Research Network; Principal Investigator: Manu Malbrain, International Fluid Academy; Principal Investigator: Gabriella Bottari, European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 30, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): October 30, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 31, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 17, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): September 28, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): June 13, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 11, 2023
• Last Verified: June 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Infections; Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome; Inflammation; Sepsis; Toxemia
• Other Study ID Numbers: ESA_Survey01; BB 124/21 (Other Identifier: Ethics Committee University Medicine Greifswald)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: This study uses no patient data.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No