Fig. 4

Distribution of working diagnosis labels (Item 3) during 34 days of follow-up for complete encounters. a Label frequencies and b prevalence. c Color map representation of label sequences and suspicion of infection for 109 incident (left) and 205 present-on-admission (right) sepsis cases. Encounters are sorted by descending length. For each day of follow-up, a rectangle colored as indicated in the legend identifies the working diagnosis (Item 3) and concurrent suspicion of infection with a non-sepsis label (Item 4). A black rectangular subsequent to the last expected rating indicates death in the ICU during this or the next rating interval, or beyond day 34