GYM score: 30-day mortality predictive model in elderly patients attended in the emergency department with infection

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 183-188

  Del Castillo, Juan González ^a   Escobar Curbelo, Luis ^a   Martínez Ortíz De Zárate, Mikel ^b   Llopis Roca, Ferrán ^c   García Lamberechts, Jorge ^a   Moreno Cuervo, Álvaro ^a   Fernández, Cristina ^a   Martín Sánchez, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE BASURTO   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

elderly patient; emergency medicine; infection; prognosis score; sepsis; septic shock; severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; VERY ELDERLY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; INFECTION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84944350907     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0000000000000321     Document Type: Article

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