September 19, 2012

Identifying Patients With Severe Sepsis Using Administrative Claims

TITheodore J. IwashynaUniversity of Mary AOAndrew OddenWashington University in St. Louis JRJeffrey M. RohdeUniversity of Michigan

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The Angus implementation of the international consensus conference definition of severe sepsis offers a reasonable but imperfect approach to identifying patients with severe sepsis when compared with a gold standard of structured review of the medical chart by trained hospitalists.

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