Objectives: Presenting symptoms in patients with sepsis may influence rapidity of diagnosis, time-to-antibiotics, and outcome. We tested the hypothesis that vague presenting symptoms are associated with delayed antibiotics and increased mortality. We further characterized individual presenting symptoms and their association with mortality. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Emergency department of large, urban, academic U.S. hospital. Patients: All adult patients with septic shock treated in the emergency department between April 2014 and March 2016. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Of 654 septic shock cases, 245 (37%) presented with vague symptoms. Time-to-antibiotics from first hypotension or elevated lactate was significantly longer for those with vague symptoms versus those with explicit symptoms of infection (1.6 vs 0.8 hr; p
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