Risk factors for death in elderly emergency department patients with suspected infection: Clinical investigations

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1184-1190

  Caterino, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c   Kulchycki, Lara K ^d   Fischer, Christopher M ^d   Wolfe, Richard E ^d   Shapiro, Nathan I ^d  

^a 146 Means Hall ^*  (United States)

^b Departments of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Emergency; Geriatric; Infection; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFECTION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFECTION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67649756963     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02320.x     Document Type: Article

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