Discharge diagnoses versus medical record review in the identification of community-acquired sepsis

Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Henry E ^a   Addis, Dylan R ^a   Donnelly, John P ^a,b   Shapiro, Nathan I ^c   Griffin, Russell L ^b   Safford, Monika M ^a   Baddley, John W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED SEPSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; CLINICAL AUDIT; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 84924265378     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-0771-6     Document Type: Article

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