Agreement of claims-based methods for identifying sepsis with clinical criteria in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort

Agreement of claims-based methods for identifying sepsis with clinical criteria in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort

Abstract Background Claims-based algorithms are commonly used to identify sepsis in health services research because the laboratory features required to define clinical criteria may not be available in administrative data. Methods We evaluated claims-based sepsis algorithms among adults in the US ag...

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Main Authors: John P. Donnelly, Yuling Dai, Lisandro D. Colantonio, Hong Zhao, Monika M. Safford, John W. Baddley, Paul Muntner, Henry E. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Sepsis
Population health
Definitions
Validation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-020-00937-9

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