Using a severity of illness scoring system to assess intensive care unit admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2238-2241

  Marinac, Jacqueline S ^a,b   Mesa, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetic ketoacidosis; Economics; Intensive care units; Length of stay; Retrospective studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0033865410     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200007000-00009     Document Type: Article

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