Prognosis of patients with systemic rheumatic diseases admitted to the intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 591-593

  Moreels, Mickaël ^a   Mélot, Christian ^a   Leeman, Marc ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Severity score; Systemic rheumatic disease

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; BELGIUM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC DISEASES;

EID: 17444429977     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2563-y     Document Type: Article

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