Decreasing mortality in patients hospitalized with cirrhosis

Gastroenterology

Volumn 148, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 897-900

  Kanwal, Fasiha ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HEPATITIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; FEMALE; MALE; TRENDS;

FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE;

EID: 84928620968     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2015.03.023     Document Type: Editorial

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