Validation study of German inpatient administrative health data for epidemiological surveillance and measurement of quality of care for sepsis: the OPTIMISE study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Sepsis is a major cause of preventable deaths in hospitals. This study aims to investigate if sepsis incidence and quality of care can be assessed using inpatient administrative health data (IAHD).

Methods and analysis

Design: Retrospective observational validation study using routine data to assess the diagnostic accuracy of sepsis coding in IAHD regarding sepsis diagnosis based on medical record review.

Procedure

A stratified sample of 10 000 patients with an age ≥15 years treated in between 2015 and 2017 in 10 German hospitals is investigated. All available information of medical records is screened by trained physicians to identify true sepsis cases ('gold standard') both according to current ('sepsis-1') definitions and new ('sepsis-3') definitions.

SUBMITTER: Schwarzkopf D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537443 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature