Intensive care unit acquired infection and organ failure

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 856-864

  Damas, Pierre ^a   Ledoux, Didier ^a   Nys, Monique ^a   Monchi, Mehran ^a   Wiesen, Patricia ^a   Beauve, Benoît ^a   Preiser, Jean Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ICU acquired infection; Organ failure; Sepsis; Sequential Organ Failure Assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 42449141908     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1018-7     Document Type: Article

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