Open AccessDetermining the Electronic Signature of Infection in Electronic Health Record Data
Author(s) -
Matthew M Churpek,
Jay Dumanian,
Nicole Dussault,
Sivasubramanium V. Bhavani,
Kyle Carey,
Emily Gilbert,
Erum Arain,
Hongzhi Wang,
Christopher Winslow,
Nirav Shah,
Majid Afshar,
Dana P. Edelson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004968
Subject(s) - medicine , sepsis , electronic health record , chart , health records , cohort , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , gold standard (test) , pediatrics , health care , statistics , mathematics , economics , economic growth
Recent sepsis studies have defined patients as "infected" using a combination of culture and antibiotic orders rather than billing data. However, the accuracy of these definitions is unclear. We aimed to compare the accuracy of different established criteria for identifying infected patients using detailed chart review.