Sepsis recording in primary care electronic health records, linked hospital episodes and mortality records: Population-based cohort study in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sepsis is a growing concern for health systems, but the epidemiology of sepsis is poorly characterised. We evaluated sepsis recording across primary care electronic records, hospital episodes and mortality registrations.

Methods and findings

Cohort study including 378 general practices in England from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD database from 2002-2017 with 36,209,676 patient-years of follow-up with linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality registrations. Incident sepsis episodes were identified for each source. Concurrent records from different sources were identified and age-standardised and age-specific incidence rates compared. Logistic regression analysis evaluated associations of gender, a

SUBMITTER: Rezel-Potts E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7774940 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature