Identifying which septic patients have increased mortality risk using severity scores: A cohort study

BMC Anesthesiology

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Marwick, Charis A ^a   Guthrie, Bruce ^a   Pringle, Jan E C ^b   McLeod, Shaun R ^c   Evans, Josie M M ^d   Davey, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CURB; CURB65; Mortality; Outcomes; Risk scores; Sepsis; Severity; SIRS; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURB65 SCORE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT CRITERIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENESCENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SSURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN CRITERIA; STANDARDIZED EARLY WARNING SYSTEM SCORE; SURGICAL WARD; SURVIVE SEPSIS CRITERIA; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME SCORE; WARD; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CURB65 PNEUMONIA SEVERITY SCORE; DISEASE DURATION; STANDARDISED EARLY WARNING SYSTEM SCORE; SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN CRITERIA; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME CRITERIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84893704651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2253-14-1     Document Type: Article

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