Septic shock: An analysis of outcomes for patients with onset on hospital wards versus intensive care units

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1020-1024

  Lundberg, Jerilyn S ^a   Perl, Trish M ^b   Wiblin, Todd ^a   Costigan, Michele D ^a   Dawson, Jeffrey ^a   Nettleman, Mary D ^c   Wenzel, Richard P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infection; Critical illness; Infectious diseases; Inotropic support; Intensive care; Mortality; Risk factors; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APACHE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031746746     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199806000-00019     Document Type: Article

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