3 Key Factors When Using Hospital Sepsis Discharge Data
3 Key Factors When Using Hospital Sepsis Discharge Data SUMMARYHospital discharge data is easy to obtain but may be misleading due to:Lack of clinical dataSubject to documentation limitationsVarious identification strategies have been developedConversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 has expanded sepsis coding options resulting in different incidence rates and patterns.REVIEWChan et al JACEP