Frequency, cost, and risk factors of readmissions among severe sepsis survivors

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 738-746

  Goodwin, Andrew J ^a   Rice, David A ^a   Simpson, Kit N ^b   Ford, Dee W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Critical illness; Patient readmission; Risk factors; Sepsis; Survivors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLLAGEN VASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COST; ECONOMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937563342     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000859     Document Type: Article

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