Estimating Sepsis Incidence Using Administrative Data and Clinical Medical Record Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite the large health burden, reliable data on sepsis epidemiology are lacking; studies using International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-coded hospital discharge diagnosis for sepsis identification suffer from limited sensitivity. Also, ICD data do not allow investigation of underlying pathogens and antimicrobial resistance.

Objectives

To generate reliable epidemiological estimates by linking data from a population-based database to a reference standard of clinical medical record review.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a retrospective, observational cohort study using a population-based administrative database including all acute care hospitals of the Scania region in Sweden in 2019 and 2020 to ident

SUBMITTER: Mellhammar L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10466163 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature