California Inpatient Severe Sepsis

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.