Assessment of global incidence and mortality of hospital-treated sepsis current estimates and limitations

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 259-272

  Fleischmann, Carolin ^a,b   Scherag, Andre ^b   Adhikari, Neill K J ^c   Hartog, Christiane S ^a,b   Tsaganos, Thomas ^d   Schlattmann, Peter ^a   Angus, Derek C ^e   Reinhart, Konrad ^a,b  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Center for Sepsis Control and Care   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Incidence; Metaanalysis; Mortality; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBASE; FATALITY; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MEDLINE; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; HOSPITALIZATION; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY;

HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84973902514     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201504-0781OC     Document Type: Article

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