Defining and measuring suspicion of sepsis: an analysis of routine data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To define the target population of patients who have suspicion of sepsis (SOS) and to provide a basis for assessing the burden of SOS, and the evaluation of sepsis guidelines and improvement programmes.

Design

Retrospective analysis of routinely collected hospital administrative data.

Setting

Secondary care, eight National Health Service (NHS) Acute Trusts.

Participants

Hospital Episode Statistics data for 2013-2014 was used to identify all admissions with a primary diagnosis listed in the 'suspicion of sepsis' (SOS) coding set. The SOS coding set consists of all bacterial infective diagnoses.

Results

We identified 47 475 admissions with SOS, equivalent to a rate of 17 admissions per 1000 adults in a given year. The mortality for this group wa

SUBMITTER: Inada-Kim M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734411 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature