Three-year mortality among alcoholic patients after intensive care: A population-based cohort study

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Christensen, Steffen ^a   Johansen, Martin B ^a   Pedersen, Lars ^a   Jensen, Reinhold ^a   Larsen, Kim M ^a   Larsson, Anders ^b   Tønnesen, Else ^a   Christiansen, Christian F ^a   Sørensen, Henrik T ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855444376     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10603     Document Type: Article

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