The Multiple Organ Dysfunction score as a descriptor of patient outcome in septic shock compared with two other scoring systems

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 741-744

  Jacobs, Sydney ^a   Zuleika, Mehrun ^a   Mphansa, Thomas ^a  

^a The General Directorate of Armed Forces Health Services   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Organ dysfunction; Outcome measure; Septic shock; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032939750     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199904000-00027     Document Type: Article

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