Sepsis codes
Codes that can be used to identify patients diagnosed with sepsis from routinely collected data.
Improving care of sepsis requires ongoing monitoring to identify areas for improvement and areas where services are performing well. The Sepsis Clinical Care Standard includes indicators to support local quality improvement activities.
The Commission has compiled a list of ICD-10-AM 12th edition codes which can be used to identify patients coded with sepsis (Table 1). The list includes all codes which have the term ‘sepsis’ in their description. Use of this codeset is not mandatory and healthcare services may use alternative retrospective or prospective methods to identify patients with sepsis
Coding of sepsis relies on appropriate clinical documentation as strict rules must be followed when assigning codes. Healthcare services may need to audit and improve their clinical documentation and/or coding of sepsis.
Table 1: ICD-10-AM 12th Edition sepsis codes - Version 1
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| A02.1 | Sepsis due to Salmonella |
| A03.7 | Sepsis due to Shigella |
| A20.7 | Sepsis due to plague |
| A21.7 | Sepsis due to tularaemia |
| A22.7 | Sepsis due to anthrax |
| A23.7 | Sepsis due to Brucella |
| A24.7 | Sepsis due to glanders and melioidosis |
| A26.7 | Sepsis due to Erysipelothrix [erysipeloid] [rhusiopathiae] |
| A28.01 | Sepsis due to Pasteurella, not elsewhere classified |
| A28.21 | Sepsis due to extraintestinal yersiniosis |
| A32.7 | Sepsis due to Listeria [monocytogenes] |
| A39.7 | Sepsis due to Meningococcus |
| A40.0 | Sepsis due to Streptococcus, group A |
| A40.1 | Sepsis due to Streptococcus, group B |
| A40.21 | Sepsis due to Streptococcus, group D |
| A40.22 | Sepsis due to Enterococcus |
| A40.3 | Sepsis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae |
| A40.8 | Other streptococcal sepsis |
| A40.9 | Streptococcal sepsis, unspecified |
| A41.0 | Sepsis due to Staphylococcus aureus |
| A41.1 | Sepsis due to other specified Staphylococcus |
| A41.2 | Sepsis due to unspecified Staphylococcus |
| A41.3 | Sepsis due to Haemophilus influenzae |
| A41.4 | Sepsis due to anaerobes |
| A41.50 | Sepsis due to unspecified Gram-negative organisms |
| A41.51 | Sepsis due to Escherichia coli [E. Coli] |
| A41.52 | Sepsis due to Pseudomonas |
| A41.58 | Sepsis due to other Gram-negative organisms |
| A41.8 | Sepsis due to other specified organism |
| A41.9 | Sepsis, unspecified |
| A42.7 | Sepsis due to actinomycosis |
| A54.7 | Sepsis due to Gonococcus |
| B00.71 | Sepsis due to herpesviral [herpes simplex] infection |
| B37.7 | Sepsis due to Candida |
| O03.0 | Spontaneous abortion, incomplete, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O03.5 | Spontaneous abortion, complete or unspecified, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O04.0 | Medical abortion, incomplete, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O04.5 | Medical abortion, complete or unspecified, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O05.0 | Other abortion, incomplete, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O05.5 | Other abortion, complete or unspecified, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O06.0 | Unspecified abortion, incomplete, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O06.5 | Unspecified abortion, complete or unspecified, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O07.0 | Failed medical abortion, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O07.5 | Other and unspecified failed attempted abortion, complicated by genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis |
| O08.0 | Genital tract and pelvic infection and sepsis following abortion and ectopic and molar pregnancy |
| O85 | Puerperal sepsis |
| P36 | Sepsis of newborn |
| R65.1 | Severe sepsis |