Thanks for your help! On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Townsend, Sean, M.D. < [email protected]> wrote:
> Your latter interpretation is correct, all within 6 hours. > > > > On Sep 29, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Amy Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > The abstractors that I've been working with have posed a question that I > thought you might be able to resolve for me. On page1-337 of the alpha data > dictionary it states that all of the criteria must be met within 6hrs of > each other to find the 'time zero' for severe sepsis. On page 1-338 the > bullet says that lab values used in determining organ dysfunction must have > been reported within the 6 hours 'preceding' onset of severe sepsis. Does > this mean that the organ dysfunction labs have to be timed prior to the > other items or are we reading too much into this? > Clinically as long as they are all present within 6 hours it should count, > right? > > Thanks! > -- > Amy Lucas MSN, RN, CCNS, CCRN > Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital > Roanoke Virginia > > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org > -- Amy Lucas MSN, RN, CCNS, CCRN Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Roanoke Virginia
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