Variation in identifying sepsis and organ dysfunction using administrative versus electronic clinical data and impact on hospital outcome comparisons

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 493-500

  Rhee, Chanu ^a,b   Jentzsch, Maximilian S ^a,c   Kadri, Sameer S ^d   Seymour, Christopher W ^e   Angus, Derek C ^e   Murphy, David J ^f   Martin, Greg S ^f   Dantes, Raymund B ^g   Epstein, Lauren ^g   Fiore, Anthony E ^g   Jernigan, John A ^g   Danner, Robert L ^d   Warren, David K ^h   Septimus, Edward J ^a,i   Hickok, Jason ^j   Poland, Russell E ^a,j   Jin, Robert ^a   Fram, David ^k   Schaaf, Richard ^k   Wang, Rui ^a   Klompas, Michael ^a,b   more..

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

^k Commonwealth Informatics ^*  (United States)

more..

Author keywords

administrative data; hospital outcomes; organ dysfunction; sepsis; surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; LACTIC ACID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACCURACY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLATELET COUNT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

ADULT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85058554228     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003554     Document Type: Article

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