| Risk of Bias |
Author’s Judgment
Low Risk
Unclear
High Risk
|
Support for Judgment |
| Selection bias |
|
|
| Bias in definition and measurement |
|
Definition of sepsis is chart-based |
| Outcome measurement bias |
|
|
| Handling of missing data |
|
Not mentioned |
| Confounding |
|
Retrospective |
| Bias of statistics or presentation of result |
|
Possible double counting in modelling |
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