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

<p>¹ Diagnosis/surgical procedure that indicate hospitalization with bacteraemia</p><p>²”Infections / bacteraemia” codes, which most likely represent bacteraemia, cf. <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0131682#pone.0131682.t002" target="_blank">Table 2</a></p><p>³ Codes, which represent the presence of a focal infection (see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0131682#sec019" target="_blank">Appendix</a>)</p><p>⁴ Only for bacteraemic episodes before 2009 (n = 45,482)</p><p>⁵ Mainly due to lack of speciation</p><p>⁶ Only for incident community-acquired bacteraemic episodes, Funen County, 2000–2008 (n = 2,761)</p><p>Patient characteristics in relation to groups of diagnosis/surgical procedure codes that indicate hospitalization with bacteraemia or the presence of a focal infection.