The burden of sepsis-associated mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2005: An analysis of multiple-cause-of-death data

Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Melamed, Alexander ^a   Sorvillo, Frank J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149115281     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc7733     Document Type: Article

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