Think sepsis, write sepsis, code sepsis – patient characteristics associated with sepsis (under-)coding in administrative health data
Year: 2025
Type: article
Language: en
Topic: Medical Coding and Health Information
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Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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