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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2017 Sep;45(9):1443–1449. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002538

TABLE 2.

Estimated annual number of adult Emergency Department (ED) sepsis visits, 2009–2011.

qSOFA ED Sepsis
Classification
Original
ED Sepsis
Classification		 Absent Present TOTAL
Absent 102,409,648 182,549 102,592,197
Present 529,036 136,283 665,319
TOTAL 102,938,684 318,832 103,257,516
Total Revised ED Sepsis Visits
  • = Original ED Sepsis + qSOFA ED sepsis
  • = 529,036 + 182,549 + 136,283
  • = 847,868 (95% CI: 692,616 – 1,003,121) ED visits [0.82% (95% CI: 0.74 – 0.91) of all adult ED visits]