Can acute medicine units in the UK comply with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's six-hour care bundle?

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-165

  McNeill, Gregor ^a   Dixon, Mark ^b   Jenkins, Paul ^b,c  

^a Ipswich Hospital ^*

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Joondalup Health Campus ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute medicine unit; Resuscitation care bundle; Sepsis; Survey; Tissue hypoxia

Indexed keywords

DROTRECOGIN; STEROID;

ACUTE MEDICINE UIIT; ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 42549172026     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.8-2-163     Document Type: Article

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