California Inpatient Severe Sepsis
Published by Department of Health Care Access and Information
About this dataset
The datasets include severe sepsis information on 1) the number of severe sepsis cases, percent of hospital-acquired and non-hospital-acquired severe sepsis cases, and the percent of in-hospital severe sepsis deaths; 2) the average length of stay for severe sepsis hospitalizations, the respective median charge per day, and the expected payer for severe sepsis hospitalizations; 3) the severe sepsis patients who were alive at discharge and died within 30 days of discharge; and 4) the hospital-acquired severe sepsis in different type of hospitals (hospital size, location, teaching, and ownership). ICD-9-CM codes were used for data before October 1, 2015, and ICD-10-CM codes were used for data on or after October 1, 2015.