Descriptors of Sepsis Using the Sepsis-3 Criteria: A Cohort Study in Critical Care Units Within the U.K. National Institute for Health Research Critical Care Health Informatics Collaborative.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the epidemiology of sepsis in critical care by applying the Sepsis-3 criteria to electronic health records.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using electronic health records.

Setting

Ten ICUs from four U.K. National Health Service hospital trusts contributing to the National Institute for Health Research Critical Care Health Informatics Collaborative.

Patients

A total of 28,456 critical care admissions (14,332 emergency medical, 4,585 emergency surgical, and 9,539 elective surgical).

Measurements and main results

Twenty-nine thousand three hundred forty-three episodes of clinical deterioration were identified with a rise in Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score of at least 2 points, of which 14,869 (50.7%) were associated with

SUBMITTER: Shah AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8508729 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature