Hydrocortisone-associated death and hospital length of stay in patients with sepsis: A retrospective cohort of large-scale clinical care data

Sepsis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide with approximately 50 million annual cases. There is ongoing debate on the clinical benefit of hydrocortisone in the prevention of death in septic patients. Here we evaluated the association between hydrocortisone treatment and mortality in patients diagnosed with sepsis in a large-scale clinical dataset.