Declining case fatality rates for severe sepsis: Good data bring good news with ambiguous implications

JAMA

Volumn 311, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1295-1297

  Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,b   Angus, Derek C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84897504204     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.2639     Document Type: Editorial

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