Septicemia in U.S. Hospitals, 2009: Statistical Brief #122

Abstract

This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) on hospital stays for septicemia in 2000 and 2009. In this Statistical Brief, characteristics of stays for septicemia hospitalizations, including utilization, cost, patient populations, and geographic locations are compared with the characteristics of all other hospital stays. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better. Cases reported here include any case of septicemia regardless of when the condition originated, prior to or during a hospital stay.