Determining the Electronic Signature of Infection in Electronic Health Record Data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Recent sepsis studies have defined patients as "infected" using a combination of culture and antibiotic orders rather than billing data. However, the accuracy of these definitions is unclear. We aimed to compare the accuracy of different established criteria for identifying infected patients using detailed chart review.

Design

Retrospective observational study.

Setting

Six hospitals from three health systems in Illinois.

Patients

Adult admissions with blood culture or antibiotic orders, or Angus International Classification of Diseases infection codes and death were eligible for study inclusion as potentially infected patients. Nine-hundred to 1,000 of these admissions were randomly selected from each health system for chart review, and a proportiona

SUBMITTER: Churpek MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8217098 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature