Executive Summary - Public Health Profiles - PHE

And since respiratory failure is an organ dysfunction of SIRS/sepsis, it should be listed as a secondary diagnosis (AHA Coding Clinic 1991, second quarter, pages 3-5). Following this logic, if a patient is admitted with all three - sepsis, pneumonia, and respiratory failure - then the sepsis will more than likely be sequenced as the principal ... ................
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