Statins and sepsis - Scientifically interesting but clinically inconsequential

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 268-269

  Eurich, Dean T ^a   Majumdar, Sumit R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DROTRECOGIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MULTIVITAMIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; STEROID; THIAMINE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE DENSITOMETRY; CANCER SCREENING; COGNITION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; DIET; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE; FATALITY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLEIOTROPY; PNEUMONIA; PREMEDICATION; PRESCRIPTION; PROPENSITY SCORE; PSEUDOMONAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEPSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKPLACE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; INPATIENTS; MALE; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84862533842     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1939-7     Document Type: Note

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