Defining Posttraumatic Sepsis for Population-Level Research.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Multiple classification methods are used to identify sepsis from existing data. In the trauma population, it is unknown how administrative methods compare with clinical criteria for sepsis classification.

Objectives

To characterize the agreement between 3 approaches to sepsis classification among critically ill patients with trauma and compare the sepsis-associated risk of adverse outcomes when each method was used to define sepsis.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used data collected between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2020, from patients aged 16 years or older with traumatic injury, admitted to the intensive care unit of a single-institution level 1 trauma center and requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for at l

SUBMITTER: Stern K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857630 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature