Assessment of disease-severity scoring systems for patients with sepsis in general internal medicine departments

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ghanem Zoubi, Nesrin O ^a   Vardi, Moshe ^a   Laor, Arie ^a   Weber, Gabriel ^a   Bitterman, Haim ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED EARLY WARNING SCORE; MORTALITY IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SEPSIS SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID EMERGENCY MEDICINE SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SIMPLE CLINICAL SCORE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79952509225     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10102     Document Type: Article

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