Incidence rate of community-acquired sepsis among hospitalized acute medical patients-a population-based survey

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-21

  Henriksen, Daniel Pilsgaard ^a   Laursen, Christian B ^a   Jensen, Thøger Gorm ^a   Hallas, Jesper ^b   Pedersen, Court ^a   Lassen, Annmarie Touborg ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Community acquired infections; Emergency medicine; Incidence; Population based; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED SEPSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ICD-10; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; VITAL SIGN; AGE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DENMARK; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DENMARK; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84925683048     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000611     Document Type: Review

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