Body temperature at the emergency department as a predictor of mortality in patients with bacterial infection

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 21, 2016, Pages

  Yamamoto, Shungo ^a,b,c   Yamazaki, Shin ^a   Shimizu, Tsunehiro ^d   Takeshima, Taro ^a,e   Fukuma, Shingo ^a,f   Yamamoto, Yosuke ^a   Tochitani, Kentaro ^d   Tsuchido, Yasuhiro ^a,d   Shinohara, Koh ^d,g   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^a,f  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d KYOTO CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHOLANGITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG USE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STUDY DESIGN; TACHYPNEA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MORTALITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BODY TEMPERATURE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84973450443     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003628     Document Type: Article

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