Sensitivity of ICD coding for sepsis in children - a population-based study mydrg.de

Sensitivity of ICD coding for sepsis in children - a population-based study (Springer).

To describe how well ICD-10 coding captures sepsis in children admitted to the hospital with blood culture-proven bacterial or fungal infection and systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
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Conclusions
We found a poor representation of sepsis with organ dysfunction by ICD-10
coding abstraction in children with bacterial sepsis in Switzerland. Based on
our data, it is likely that studies assessing sepsis in children based on
ICD-10 code abstraction severely underestimate the true burden of disease and
that findings will not be comparable to estimates based on ICD-11.
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Quelle: Springer, 14.06.2023