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Are Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Sepsis Codes Changing over Time?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2015

Anica Law  and
Michael Klompas
Anica Law
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Michael Klompas*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.
*
Address correspondence to Michael Klompas, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 (mklompas@partners.org).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 11 , November 2015 , pp. 1364 - 1366
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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