Response to Editor letter "Admission characteristics predictive of in-hospital death from hospital-acquired sepsis: A comparison to community-acquired sepsis".
Response to Editor letter "Admission characteristics predictive of in-hospital death from hospital-acquired sepsis: A comparison to community-acquired sepsis".
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对编辑信“预测医院获得性脓毒症院内死亡的入院特征：与社区获得性脓毒症的比较”的回复。
DOI：
10.1016/j.jcrc.2019.04.024
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Gray-Eurom,Kelly
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作者：
Guirgis,FaheemW;Padro,Teresa;Smotherman,Carmen;Gautam,Shiva;Gerdik,Cynthia;Gray-Eurom,Kelly
First, while we agree that we did not specifically account for patients with healthcareassociated sepsis, we would like to emphasize that the study was focused on identifying baseline predictors of mortality from hospital-acquired sepsis (HA). Though the presence of classification bias is possible, it would have biased our data towards the null hypothesis (showing that there was no difference between community and hospital-acquired sepsis) as healthcare-associated sepsis patients would have raised the mortality of the communityacquired (CA) sepsis group. However, our study reported nearly identical mortality rates for CA and HA-sepsis as the larger study by Page et al. who reported rates of 8.6% for CA-
