A decreasing trend for pneumonia and a significantly increasing trend for sepsis were observed, with sepsis becoming the most common hospitalised infection around 2011.
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Infection-related hospitalisation in young adults with systemic lupus erythematosus: data from the National Inpatient Sample.
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Changes in coding methods for sepsis (with upcoding for sepsis) could also have contributed to an increasing trend over time, and sepsis itself could have been the result of an initial pneumonia or other infections. 24 It is not possible to determine the extent to which this could have happened and the specific causative organisms from the NIS database.