Sepsis incidence and mortality are underestimated in Australian intensive care unit administrative data

• 1 The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC
• 2 Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, Melbourne, VIC
• 3 Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC
• 4 Wellington Regional Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

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