Epidemiology of sepsis syndrome in 8 academic medical centers

JAMA

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 234-240

  Sands, Kenneth E ^a,i   Bates, David W ^a   Lanken, Paul N ^b   Graman, Paul S ^c   Hibberd, Patricia L ^d   Kahn, Katherine L ^e   Parsonnet, Jeffrey ^f   Panzer, Robert ^c   Orav, E John ^a   Snydman, David R ^g   Black, Edgar ^c   Schwartz, J Sanford ^b   Moore, Richard ^h   Johnson, B Lamar ^e   Platt, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 0030854780     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.278.3.234     Document Type: Article

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