Results from the national sepsis practice survey: Predictions about mortality and morbidity and recommendations for limitation of care orders

Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  O'Brien Jr , James M ^a   Aberegg, Scott K ^a   Ali, Naeem A ^a   Diette, Gregory B ^b   Lemeshow, Stanley ^c  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY CANCER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SELF CARE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; VIGNETTE; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOCK, SEPTIC; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 67650723262     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc7926     Document Type: Article

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