Evaluating Pediatric Sepsis Definitions Designed for Electronic Health Record Extraction and Multicenter Quality Improvement.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the Children's Hospital Association's Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes sepsis definitions and the identified patients; evaluate the definition using a published framework for evaluating sepsis definitions.

Design

Observational cohort.

Setting

Multicenter quality improvement collaborative of 46 hospitals from January 2017 to December 2018, excluding neonatal ICUs.

Patients

Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes Sepsis was defined by electronic health record evidence of suspected infection and sepsis treatment or organ dysfunction. A more severely ill subgroup, Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes Critical Sepsis, was defined, approximating septic shock.

Interventions

Participating hospitals identified patients, extracted data, and tr

SUBMITTER: Scott HF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677030 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature