Severe sepsis in the ICU is often missing in hospital discharge codes
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- 作者：S. B. Wilhelms ; S. M. Walther ; F. Huss and F. Sjö ; berg
- 刊名：Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：61
- 期：2
- 页码：186-193
- 全文大小：232K
- ISSN：1399-6576
文摘
Different International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-based code abstraction strategies have been used when studying the epidemiology of severe sepsis. The aim of this study was to compare three previously used ICD code abstraction strategies to the American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine (ACCP/SCCM) consensus criteria for severe sepsis, in a setting of intensive care patients.