Can administrative data be used to consistently measure the burden of sepsis?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 747-749

  Cremer, Olaf L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diagnosis; epidemiology; mortality; septic shock; severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 84894445900     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000075     Document Type: Editorial

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