Sepsis and the theory of relativity: measuring a moving target with a moving measuring stick

Michael Klompas^{1

2}, Chanu Rhee^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. mklompas@partners.org.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. mklompas@partners.org.
³ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Editorial

Michael Klompas et al. Crit Care. 2016.

. 2016 Nov 21;20(1):396.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-016-1559-z.

Michael Klompas^{1

2}, Chanu Rhee^{3

4}

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. mklompas@partners.org.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. mklompas@partners.org.
³ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Administrative data; Epidemiology; Sepsis; Surveillance.

Comment on

Use of explicit ICD9-CM codes to identify adult severe sepsis: impacts on epidemiological estimates.
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