Fig. 1
From: Use of explicit ICD9-CM codes to identify adult severe sepsis: impacts on epidemiological estimates
Cases of severe sepsis identified using explicit and combination codes across the study interval. From 2006 to 2011, the number of cases rose from 12 652 to 16 748 in the combination code cohort and from 13 156 to 30 026 in the explicit code cohort. Within this cohort, cases coded 995.92 (severe sepsis) rose from 2697 to 11 233 and those coded 785.52 (septic shock) rose from 10 459 to 18 793