Occurrence and outcomes of sepsis: Influence of race

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 763-768

  Dombrovskiy, Viktor Y ^a   Martin, Andrew A ^a   Sunderram, Jagadeeshan ^a   Paz, Harold L ^b,c  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johnson and Johnson ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Case fatality; Critical care; Hospitalization; Mortality; Population groups; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; CANCER; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947179106     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000256726.80998.BF     Document Type: Article

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