Conducting Sepsis Surveillance by Applying Sepsis-3 Criteria to Electronic Health Record Data: Promises and Potential Pitfalls

A subsequent study sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adapted the Sepsis-3 approach to facilitate consistent surveillance across diverse EHR systems in order to generate updated national estimates of sepsis incidence, mortality, and trends. ICU mortality was highest for ICU-acquired sepsis (24%) followed by hospital-acquired sepsis (19%) and community-acquired sepsis (13%). These factors have collectively led to underestimation of the burden of sepsis, overestimation of changes in sepsis incidence and outcomes, and difficulty in comparing sepsis outcomes across hospitals, regions, and countries.
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