Schmidt KFT, Schwarzkopf D, Baldwin LM, et al. - Researchers intended to analyze the long-term courses of sepsis survivors and the impacts of a primary care management intervention in sepsis aftercare. They designed a 24-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial including a sum of 291 individuals who survived sepsis (including septic shock) from nine German intensive care units. Individuals were assigned randomly to usual care or to a 12-month-intervention. They collected survival and measures of mental and physical health by telephone interviews at the 24-month follow-up, 12 months after the 1-year-intervention. No significant differences were found in all other outcomes between the intervention and control groups. They found that a primary care management intervention among survivors of sepsis did not improve mental health-related quality of life after 12 months. Less posttraumatic stress symptoms were noted in individuals with the intervention group.