Figure 2. One-year Mortality for Pediatric Severe Sepsis Patients.
Mortality in the year after hospital discharge ranged from a low of 8.8% among the cases identified by Angus, et al. to a high in the single code cohorts of 23.5% (‘severe sepsis’) and 24.0% (‘septic shock’). The majority of deaths occurred in the first two months after hospital discharge.