Performance of Severity of Illness Scoring Systems in Emergency Department Patients with Infection

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 709-714

  Howell, Michael D ^a   Donnino, Michael W ^a   Talmor, Daniel ^a   Clardy, Peter ^a   Ngo, Long ^a   Shapiro, Nathan I ^a  

^a Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

risk stratification; sepsis; septic shock; severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE; UREA;

EID: 34447559811     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.02.036     Document Type: Article

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