Impact of recent intravenous chemotherapy on outcome in severe sepsis and septic shock patients with haematological malignancies: Reply to letter by Meyer et al.

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1930-1931

  Vandijck, Dominique M ^a   Benoit, Dominique D ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 52949107955     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1223-4     Document Type: Letter

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