Performance of hospital administrative data for detection of sepsis in Australia: The sepsis coding and documentation (SECOND) study.
Graeme J DukeMaria BisharaSteve HirthLyn-Li LimLeon J WorthPublished in: Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (2022)
In hospitalised Australian patients with community-onset sepsis, the explicit method for sepsis case detection underestimated prevalence. Implicit methods were consistent with consensus definition for sepsis, and proposed synchronous method had better performance.