Heather E Hsu, Francisca Abanyie, Michael S D Agus, Fran Balamuth, Patrick W Brady, Richard J Brilli, Joseph A Carcillo, Raymund Dantes, Lauren Epstein, Anthony E Fiore, Jeffrey S Gerber, Runa H Gokhale, Benny L Joyner, Niranjan Kissoon, Michael Klompas, Grace M Lee, Charles G Macias, Karen M Puopolo, Carmen D Sulton, Scott L Weiss, Chanu Rhee
Pediatric sepsis is a major public health concern, and robust surveillance tools are needed to characterize its incidence, outcomes, and trends. The increasing use of electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States creates an opportunity to conduct reliable, pragmatic, and generalizable population-level surveillance using routinely collected clinical data rather than administrative claims or resource-intensive chart review. In 2015, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recruited sepsis investigators and representatives of key professional societies to develop an approach to adult sepsis surveillance using clinical data recorded in EHRs...
November 27, 2019: Pediatrics