A Comparative Analysis of Sepsis Identification Methods in an Electronic Database.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the relative validity of criteria for the identification of sepsis in an ICU database. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study of adult ICU admissions from 2008 to 2012. SETTING:Tertiary teaching hospital in Boston, MA. PATIENTS:Initial admission of all adult patients to noncardiac surgical ICUs. INTERVENTIONS:Comparison of five different algorithms for retrospectively identifying sepsis, including the Sepsis-3 criteria. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:11,791 of 23,620 ICU admissions (49.9%) met criteria for the study. Within this subgroup, 59.9% were suspected of infection on ICU admission, 75.2% of admissions had Sequential Organ Failure Assessment greater than or equal to 2, and 49.1% had both suspicion of infection and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment greater than or

SUBMITTER: Johnson AEW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851804 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature