White cell count and intensive care unit outcome

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 180-182

  Waheed, U ^b   Williams, P ^c   Brett, S ^b   Baldock, G ^b   Soni, N ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical care outcome: white cell count

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKEMOID REACTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

APACHE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKEMOID REACTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LONDON; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037292283     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.02964_5.x     Document Type: Article

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