Translating the PIRO staging system concept into clinical practice: Where do we go from here?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 408-409

  Soares, Márcio ^a   Lisboa, Thiago ^b   Salluh, Jorge I F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

infection; outcome; PIRO staging system; sepsis; theragnostics

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFECTION; MORTALITY; PIRO STAGING SYSTEM; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 79251586290     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181f17a04     Document Type: Editorial

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