How Much More Intelligent Do We Have to Be about the Burden of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock?*

Department of Quality and Patient Safety, OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH * See also p. 729 and 738. Dr. O’Brien served as a board member for the Sepsis Alliance (Chair of the Board of Directors) and Global Sepsis Alliance (Executive Board); consulted for OrthoClinical Diagnostics (served on advisory board for OrthoClinical Diagnostics; travel and lodging provided; honorarium donated to Sepsis Alliance); lectured for Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) (honorarium was donated directly to Sepsis Alliance), General Electric (GE) (gave three talks on sepsis at GE’s booth at National Teaching Institute for American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in Denver, CO; travel and lodging provided; honorarium donated to Sepsis Alliance), and MSC (gave talk sponsored by Medical Simulation Corporation; honorarium donated to Sepsis Alliance); and disclosed other support from Wolters-Kluwer (participated in video about sepsis sponsored by Wolters-Kluwer; travel and lodging provided; honorarium donated to Sepsis Alliance) and Edwards LifeSciences (visited with member of Congress regarding General Accounting Office report on sepsis; collaborated with Edwards LifeSciences on planning visits).