Emergency department lactate is associated with mortality in older adults admitted with and without infections

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 260-268

  Del Portal, Daniel A ^a,c   Shofer, Frances ^a,d   Mikkelsen, Mark E ^a   Dorsey Jr , Philip J ^b   Gaieski, David F ^a   Goyal, Munish ^a,e   Synnestvedt, Marie ^a   Weiner, Mark G ^a   Pines, Jesse M ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^g GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Emergency; Geriatric; Infection; Lactic acid; Mortality; Older patients

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LACTIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CREATININE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFECTION; LACTIC ACID; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PENNSYLVANIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SELECTION BIAS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 77951128867     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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