Objective We extended a 2013 literature review on electronic health record (EHR) data
quality assessment approaches and tools to determine recent improvements or changes in …

Abstract The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) measure has appropriately established sepsis as a …

Importance Patients with septic shock may benefit from the initiation of corticosteroids.
However, the comparative effectiveness of the 2 most studied corticosteroid regimens …

Background Diagnosing sepsis remains challenging. Data compiled from continuous
monitoring and electronic health records allow for new opportunities to compute predictions …

Objectives: Prior studies have reported that hospital-onset sepsis is associated with higher
mortality rates than community-onset sepsis. Most studies, however, have used inconsistent …

Sepsis is a leading cause of mortality and early identification improves survival. With
increasing digitalization of health care data automated sepsis prediction models hold …

Background Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The associated
incidence, mortality and trends do not differ greatly between documented reports. The …

Abstract The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Severe
Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1) as a pay-for-reporting measure in 2015 …

Background Empiric antibiotic use among hospitalized adults in the United States (US) is
largely undescribed. Identifying factors associated with broad-spectrum empiric therapy may …

Purpose Timely and accurate data on the epidemiology of sepsis are essential to inform
policy decisions and research priorities. We aimed to investigate the validity of inpatient …