Table 3.
Sepsis and mortality on an annual basis
| Year of discharge | 2011 N = 1.160% |
2012 N = 1.409% |
2013 N = 1.351% |
2014 N = 1.632% |
2015 N = 1.825% |
2016 N = 1.710% |
2017 N = 1.855% |
2018 N = 1.881% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sepsis with positive blood culture | 17.8 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 14.6 | 14.9 | 13.8 | 14.8 | 13.8 |
| Clinical sepsisa | 47.5 | 41.3 | 40.7 | 37.6 | 38.2 | 28.9 | 28.5 | 27.0 |
| Early-onset sepsisa with positive blood culture | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Late-onset sepsis with positive blood culturea | 18.6 | 16.5 | 16.3 | 15.5 | 15.8 | 13.9 | 15.3 | 13.8 |
| Gram positive sepsis | 14.2 | 12.4 | 13.2 | 11.0 | 12.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 11.0 |
| Gram negative sepsis | 4.6 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| KRINKO I/MDRO sepsis | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| KRINKO II sepsis | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| KRINKO III sepsis | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Candida sepsis | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Sepsis related mortality | 2.8 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 2.0 |
| Total mortality | 16.0 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 12.6 | 12.1 | 12.7 | 12.0 | 13.1 |
aFor clinical sepsis, and early/late onset sepsis the data is based on the population of infants enrolled in the GNN