The Association of Sepsis Syndrome and Organ Dysfunction With Mortality in Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Infection

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Shapiro, Nathan ^a   Howell, Michael D ^b   Bates, David W ^c   Angus, Derek C ^d   Ngo, Long ^a   Talmor, Daniel ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FLUID THERAPY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33750035526     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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