Fitting a square peg into a round hole: Are the current Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines feasible for Africa?

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Jacob, Shevin T ^a   West, T Eoin ^b   Banura, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Masaka Regional Referral Hospital   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CONSENSUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEPSIS; SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INTENSIVE CARE; STATISTICS;

CRITICAL CARE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEPSIS;

EID: 84855939922     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9981     Document Type: Note

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