Integrating sepsis management recommendations into clinical care guidelines for district hospitals in resource-limited settings: The necessity to augment new guidelines with future research

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jacob, Shevin T ^a   Lim, Matthew ^b   Banura, Patrick ^c   Bhagwanjee, Satish ^a   Bion, Julian ^d   Cheng, Allen C ^e   Cohen, Hillary ^f   Farrar, Jeremy ^g   Gove, Sandy ^h   Hopewell, Philip ⁱ   Moore, Christopher C ^j   Roth, Cathy ^k   West, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c Masaka Regional Referral Hospital   (Uganda)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^h IMAI IMCI Alliance   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^k WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Guidelines; Resource limited setting; Sepsis; Severe illness

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84876172551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-107     Document Type: Letter

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