Sepsis syndrome in Croatian intensive care units: Piloting a national comparative clinical database

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 404-409

  Gašparović, Vladimir ^a   Gornik, Ivan ^a   Ivanović, Dragutin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROATIA; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CROATIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS;

EID: 33745203520     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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