Figure 1.
Flow chart of the study population.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics in patients admitted to the medical emergency department and proportions of patients with infection identified by chart review and ICD-10 discharge diagnoses.
Figure 2.
Area proportional Euler Diagram of patients with a diagnosis of infection identified by chart review (dark gray fill), tentative ICD-10 discharge diagnoses from the medical ED (no fill) or accumulated ICD-10 discharge diagnoses from the entire course of admission (light gray fill).
Figure 3.
Distribution of sites of infection identified by chart review and by accumulated ICD-10 discharge diagnoses.
The prevalence rate could exceed 100%, because a patient could have more than one site of infection per admission. CNS = Central nervous system.
Table 2.
Estimation of sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios of the diagnosis codes of infection in patients admitted to the medical emergency department with- and without infection.
Table 3.
Sensitivity, Specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios for demographic characteristics in patients admitted with a diagnosis of community-acquired infection.
Table 4.
Sensitivity, Specificity predictive values and likelihood ratios for sites of infection.