Value of shock index in prognosticating the short term outcome of death for patients presenting with severe sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 406-411

  Yussof, Shah Jahan Mohd ^a   Zakaria, Mohd Idzwan ^a   Mohamed, Fatahul Laham ^a   Bujang, Mohamad Adam ^a   Lakshmanan, Sharmila ^a   Asaari, Abu Hassan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UROSEPSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867013091     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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