TY  - GEN
AU  - Bouza, Carmen
AU  - Lopez-Cuadrado, Teresa
AU  - Amate, Jose Maria
PY  - 2016
DO  - 10.1186/s13054-016-1497-9
SN  - 1364-8535
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/9170
AB  - BACKGROUND: Severe sepsis is a challenge for healthcare systems, and epidemiological studies are essential to assess its burden and trends. However, there is no consensus on which coding strategy should be used to reliably identify severe sepsis. This...
LA  - eng
PB  - BioMed Central (BMC)
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Health services research
KW  - Incidence
KW  - Outcome
KW  - Severe sepsis
KW  - Trends
KW  - Aged
KW  - Cohort Studies
KW  - Epidemiologic Studies
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Incidence
KW  - International Classification of Diseases
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Sepsis
KW  - Spain
TI  - Use of explicit ICD9-CM codes to identify adult severe sepsis: impacts on epidemiological estimates
TY  - research article
ER  -