We use all 3 diagnosis codes, sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock and exclude comfort care in the first 24 hours to determine our rate. We have a dashboard that allows us to filter for this and it includes, POA and NPOA. Do you any of you use this metric? Thanks.
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