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Correction: Inaccurate Classification and Information Reported in a Study of Statin Use and Sepsis in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
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To the Editor: We are writing to inform the readers and editors of JAMA about errors in a study of statin use and sepsis in patients with chronic kidney disease published in the April 4, 2007, issue of JAMA and for which we were the principal investigators.1 These errors were detected in the process of reviewing our coding algorithms for health care utilization data from which we identified sepsis events.
In our article, we had identified sepsis events by using validated International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) billing codes (038.0-038.9, septicemia; 790.7, bacteremia) in United States Renal Data System administrative files. However, we inaccurately identified the source administrative files as hospitalization billing files only. The files we received actually included billing data from other treatment settings as well, including outpatient and skilled nursing facilities. Thus, the original 303 sepsis-related "hospitalizations" were incorrectly reported and are more accurately described by . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Rajesh Gupta, MD;
Laura C. Plantinga, ScM
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
npowe@jhsph.edu
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Baltimore, Maryland
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Rajesh Gupta, Laura C. Plantinga, Nancy E. Fink, Michal L. Melamed, Josef Coresh, Caroline S. Fox, Nathan W. Levin, and Neil R. Powe
JAMA. 2007;297(13):1455-1464.
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