Improving documentation and coding for acute organ dysfunction biases estimates of changing sepsis severity and burden: a retrospective study

INTRODUCTION: Claims-based analyses report that the incidence of sepsis-associated organ dysfunction is increasing. We examined whether coding practices for acute organ dysfunction are changing over time and if so, whether this is biasing estimates of rising severe sepsis incidence and severity. MET...

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Autores principales: Rhee, Chanu, Murphy, Michael V., Li, Lingling, Platt, Richard, Klompas, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26369326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-015-1048-9

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