Severe sepsis outcomes: How are we doing?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2126-2127

  Higgins, Thomas L ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; benchmarking; mortality probability model; severe sepsis; severity of illness; Simplified Acute Physiology Score

Indexed keywords

APACHE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS;

HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84906354998     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000443     Document Type: Editorial

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