National Inpatient study of 61,615 systemic sclerosis pts (1998–2016) finds most common serious infections were pneumonia 45%, sepsis 32%, SSTI 19%; by 2015–2016, sepsis 1.8X more common than pneumonia. Hosp SIE mortality decr over time (10% to 8%) https://t.co/nv1KjaL3w4