Point-of-care urine albumin:Creatinine ratio is associated with outcome in emergency department patients with sepsis: A pilot study

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-264

  Drumheller, Byron C ^a,b   McGrath, Meghan ^a   Matsuura, Asako C ^b   Gaieski, David F ^b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN URINE LEVEL; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ALBUMINS; ALBUMINURIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; CREATININE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84858984444     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01266.x     Document Type: Article

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