Patient characteristics in relation to groups of diagnosis/surgical procedure codes that indicate hospitalization with bacteraemia or the presence of a focal infection.

1 Diagnosis/surgical procedure that indicate hospitalization with bacteraemia
2”Infections / bacteraemia” codes, which most likely represent bacteraemia, cf. Table 2
3 Codes, which represent the presence of a focal infection (see Appendix)
4 Only for bacteraemic episodes before 2009 (n = 45,482)
5 Mainly due to lack of speciation
6 Only for incident community-acquired bacteraemic episodes, Funen County, 2000–2008 (n = 2,761)
Patient characteristics in relation to groups of diagnosis/surgical procedure codes that indicate hospitalization with bacteraemia or the presence of a focal infection.