Objectives: To determine national readmission rates among sepsis survivors, variations in
rates between hospitals, and determine whether measures of quality correlate with
performance on sepsis readmissions. Design: Cross-sectional study of sepsis readmissions
between 2008 and 2011 in the Medicare fee-for-service database. Setting: Acute care,
Medicare participating hospitals from 2008 to 2011. Patients: Septic patients as identified by
International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes using the Angus method …