Sepsis is underreported in Swedish intensive care units: A retrospective observational multicentre study.

Maria Lengquist Oscar H M Lundberg Martin Spångfors Martin Annborn Helena Levin Hans Friberg Attila Frigyesi

Published in: Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (2020)

This large Swedish multicentre study showed that 28% of adult ICU patients fulfilled the Sepsis-3 criteria, but only one third of them had sepsis according to ICU discharge codes. We could confirm our hypothesis, that sepsis is severely underreported in Swedish ICUs, and we conclude that discharge codes should not be used for quality control or research purposes.

Keyphrases

intensive care unit
septic shock
acute kidney injury
quality control
mechanical ventilation
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
patient reported outcomes
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation