About The Study: An electronic health record-based definition for pediatric sepsis demonstrated strong validity compared with physician-adjudicated Phoenix sepsis and identified sepsis in 1.3% of pediatric hospitalizations with 10% mortality, corresponding to more than 18,000 cases and more than 1,800 deaths annually in the U.S.
Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Chanu Rhee, MD, MPH, email crhee@bwh.harvard.edu .
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(doi:10.1001/jama.2026.3100)
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