title: The rising incidence of severe sepsis based on administrative data - real change or coding-driven bias?
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX, 79763, USA. lavi.oud@ttuhsc.edu.
authors.forename: Lavi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oud
mesh_terms: D059019:Clinical Coding / Q000592:standards*; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications*