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Aim
The aims of this research were to determine the mortality from sepsis and severe infection in the paediatric and adolescent populations of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and to determine the distribution of mortality by sub‐populations.
Methods
We used three different methods to identify deaths from sepsis and severe infection and compared the groups:
All deaths primarily coded with any ICD‐10‐AM code...