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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2015 May;43(5):989–995. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000862

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Change in hospital-level pneumonia 30-day morality and 30-day hospital readmission rates after recoding eligible patients.

Change in (A) pneumonia 30-day mortality rate and (B) pneumonia 30-day hospital readmission rate when 25 randomly selected hospitals identify and recode all eligible patients with pneumonia to a primary diagnosis of sepsis or respiratory failure. Data are from representative simulations. Arrows show direction of change in the outcome but do not contribute to degree of change. Patient's eligible for recoding are those with a principal ICD-9-CM diagnosis code for pneumonia and ICD-9-CM procedure code for mechanical ventilation or secondary diagnosis code for acute organ failure.