Assessing the effect of the surviving sepsis campaign treatment guidelines on clinical outcomes in a community hospital

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1733-1738

  Patel, Gita Wasan ^a   Roderman, Nicki ^a   Gehring, Hollie ^a   Saad, John ^a   Bartek, William ^a  

^a Medical Center of Plano   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundles; Outcomes; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DROTRECOGIN; GLUCOSE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGENATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROTEIN C; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78049486765     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1P251     Document Type: Article

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