Impact of gender on sepsis mortality and severity of illness for prepubertal and postpubertal children

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ghuman, Anoopindar K ^a,b   Newth, Christopher J L ^a,b   Khemani, Robinder G ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 log likelihood; AIC; Akaike information criterion; BIC; CARS; Compensatory anti inflammatory response syndrome; Length of stay; ll; LOS; Pediatric Index of Mortality 2; Pediatric intensive care unit; PICU; PIM 2; Risk of mortality; ROM; Schwarz Bayes information criterion; SIRS; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome; Virtual PICU Systems; VPS

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MORTALITY; PREPUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84882910505     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.04.018     Document Type: Article

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