Sepsis Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 4. Precoronavirus Disease 2019 Update January 2012-February 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To provide updated information on the burdens of sepsis during acute inpatient admissions for Medicare beneficiaries.

Design

Analysis of paid Medicare claims via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services DataLink Project.

Setting

All U.S. acute-care hospitals, excluding federally operated hospitals (Veterans Administration and Defense Health Agency).

Patients

All Medicare beneficiaries, January 2012-February 2020, with an explicit sepsis diagnostic code assigned during an inpatient admission.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

The count of Medicare Part A/B (fee-for-service) plus Medicare Advantage inpatient sepsis admissions rose from 981,027 (CY2012) to 1,700,433 (CY 2019). The proportion of total admissions with s

SUBMITTER: Frank CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8594514 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature