Evidence for a causal link between sepsis and long-term mortality: A systematic review of epidemiologic studies

Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Shankar Hari, Manu ^a,b   Ambler, Michael ^a   Mahalingasivam, Viyaasan ^a   Jones, Andrew ^a,b   Rowan, Kathryn ^c   Rubenfeld, Gordon D ^d  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c and London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Causality; Confounding factors (epidemiology); Mortality; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CRITICAL CARE OUTCOME; DATA EXTRACTION; HAZARD RATIO; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; POST ACUTE MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84963548450     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-016-1276-7     Document Type: Article

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