[HTML][HTML] Sepsis among medicare beneficiaries: 1. The burdens of sepsis, 2012–2018

TG Buchman, SQ Simpson, KL Sciarretta… - Critical care …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To provide contemporary estimates of the burdens (costs and mortality)
associated with acute inpatient Medicare beneficiary admissions for sepsis. Design:
Analysis of paid Medicare claims via the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services DataLink
Project. Setting: All US acute care hospitals, excluding federally operated hospitals
(Veterans Administration and Defense Health Agency). Patients: All Medicare beneficiaries,
2012–2018, with an inpatient admission including one or more explicit sepsis codes …