Determination of the size of the different sepsis categories presenting to a UK teaching hospital emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-14

  Majuran, M ^a   Clancy, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 38749142888     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.042358     Document Type: Article

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