Severe sepsis cohorts derived from claims-based strategies appear to be biased toward a more severely ill patient population

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 945-953

  Whittaker, Stacey Ann ^a   Mikkelsen, Mark E ^a,b   Gaieski, David F ^a,b   Koshy, Sherine ^b   Kean, Craig ^c   Fuchs, Barry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical coding; documentation; epidemiology; international classification of diseases; sepsis syndrome; septic shock; severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-9; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84875785051     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31827466f1     Document Type: Article

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