Is the burden of severe sepsis and septic shock changing?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1361-1363

  Timsit, Jean Francois ^a   Laupland, Kevin B ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

epidemiology; incidence; mortality; septic shock; severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; ICD-9; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SEPSIS;

EID: 84876538062     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31828044e4     Document Type: Editorial

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