Early Infectious Disease Consultation Is Associated With Lower Mortality in Patients With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock Who Complete the 3-Hour Sepsis Treatment Bundle.

We observed a statistical trend toward shorter time to antibiotic de-escalation in the early ID group compared with standard care group and shorter duration of antibiotic therapy in patients with early ID consult compared to later ID consult in the subsample where an antibiotic duration recommendation was made, but neither reached statistical significance (possibly due to small sample size).

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