Consensus Current Procedural Terminology Code Definition of Source Control for Sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Unlike antibiotic and perfusion support, guidelines for sepsis source control lack high-quality evidence and are ungraded. Internally valid administrative data methods are needed to identify cases representing source control procedures to evaluate outcomes.

Methods

Over five modified Delphi rounds, two independent reviewers identified Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes pertinent to source control. In each round, codes with perfect agreement were retained or excluded, whereas disagreements were reviewed by the panelists. Manual review of 400 patient records meeting Sepsis-3 criteria (2010-2017) clinically adjudicated which encounters included source control procedures (gold standard). The performance of consensus codes was compared with the gold standard

SUBMITTER: Li SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038628 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature