Rehospitalizations following sepsis: Common and costly

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2085-2093

  Chang, Dong W ^a   Tseng, Chi Hong ^b   Shapiro, Martin F ^b  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Delivery of healthcare; Health services; Hospital readmissions; Quality of healthcare; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; ECONOMICS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84941901905     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001159     Document Type: Article

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