A surveillance method to identify patients with sepsis from electronic health records in Hong Kong: a single centre retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Currently there are only two population studies on sepsis incidence in Asia. The burden of sepsis in Hong Kong is unknown. We developed a sepsis surveillance method to estimate sepsis incidence from a population electronic health record (EHR) in Hong Kong using objective clinical data. The study objective was to assess our method's performance in identifying sepsis using a retrospective cohort. We compared its accuracy to administrative sepsis surveillance methods such as Angus' and Martin's methods.

Method

In this single centre retrospective study we applied our sepsis surveillance method on adult patients admitted to a tertiary hospital in Hong Kong. Two clinicians independently reviewed the clinical notes to determine which patients had sepsis. Performance was

SUBMITTER: Liu YZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487694 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature