There was an increase in the sensitivity of sepsis claims for capturing hospitalizations with positive blood cultures with concurrent vasopressors and/or lactic acidosis (P <.001 for all methods ...

THE final report into how sepsis was “coded” at the Royal Bolton Hospital has cleared the trust of any wrongdoing. It also revealed clinicians in Bolton were doing an “exceptional” job ...

With the implementation of the new sepsis coding methodology-- the use of Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) codes and the reporting of organ failure -- the number of cases reported as ...