Sepsis in intensive care units in the Republic of Croatia

Different forms of sepsis are frequent indications for patient admission to intensive care unit. Incidence of various types of sepsis varies by countries, as well as consequent mortality, but the data on incidence, costs, and length of hospital stay in our country are not known. Within the project "croicu.net" we tried to determine in what extent patients with clinical syndrome of sepsis are hospitalized. The study comprised about a million of potential patients in the Republic of Croatia. Source of data for the study were protocols of the project "croicu.net". Details on this project, its goals, sites, and the questionnaire are on the Internet. In the first 6 months of the project which started on November 1, 2004, data on hospitalization of over 3000 patients in different intensive care units were gathered.