Many emergency department patients with severe sepsis and septic shock do not meet diagnostic criteria within 3 hours of arrival

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-54

  Villar, Julian ^a,c   Clement, Joseph P ^c   Stotts, Jim ^b   Linnen, Daniel ^d   Rubin, David J ^c   Thompson, David ^a   Gomez, Antonio ^b,c   Fee, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Division of BioInformatics National IT Kaiser Permanente   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84903193306     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.02.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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