Diabetic Patients with Severe Sepsis Admitted to Intensive Care Unit Do Not Fare Worse than Non-Diabetic Patients: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Chang, Cheng Wei ^a,c   Kok, Victor C ^b,c   Tseng, Ta Chien ^d   Horng, Jorng Tzong ^b,e   Liu, Chun Eng ^f   Seguro, Antonio Carlos ^g  

^a HSING WU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KUANG TIEN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON DEYO COMORBIDITY INDEX SCORE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROGNOSIS; RISK; SEPSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84870859566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050729     Document Type: Article

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