Uncertainty about the Clinical Detection of Sepsis

Journal of Infusion Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-28

  Ross, Vicki M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION RISK; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; PAIN; PHLEBITIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RIGOR; SEPSIS; SYMPTOM; TACHYPNEA; WOUND; BLOOD; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0037268132     PISSN: 15331458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129804-200301000-00003     Document Type: Article

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