Defining sepsis mortality clusters in the United States

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1380-1387

  Moore, Justin Xavier ^a   Donnelly, John P ^a,b   Griffin, Russell ^a   Howard, George ^b   Safford, Monika M ^a   Wang, Henry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

disease clustering; geographic locations; mortality; sepsis; spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; ICD-10; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964258049     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001665     Document Type: Article

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