Urosepsis

• The term "urosepsis" is not well defined, as it is used to mean various things, particularly either: (i) urinary tract infection, and/or (ii) sepsis with source being the urinary tract.
• When the team notes "urosepsis" the data collector must:
  • Verify the presence of one or another Urinary tract infection and appropriately code that infection.
  • Assess whether the patient has sepsis (Sepsis (SIRS due to infection, without acute organ failure) or Severe sepsis) or septic shock (Shock, septic), and appropriately code that entity.
  • If the team believes that the sepsis/septic shock is a consequence of the urinary tract infection, then code them as combined ICD10 codes.