Secular trends in mortality associated with new therapeutic strategies in surgical critical illness

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 535-541

  Hartl, Wolfgang H ^a   Wolf, Hilde ^a   Schneider, Christian P ^a   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^b   Jauch, Karl Walter ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mortality; Multiple organ failure; Surgical intensive care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 34250216429     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.12.043     Document Type: Article

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