Sepsis Clinical Criteria in Emergency Department Patients Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit: An External Validation Study of Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 622-631

  April, Michael D ^a   Aguirre, Jose ^a   Tannenbaum, Lloyd I ^a   Moore, Tyler ^a   Pingree, Alexander ^a   Thaxton, Robert E ^a   Sessions, Daniel J ^a   Lantry, James H ^a  

^a San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; emergency department; mortality; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; VALIDATION STUDY; VITAL SIGN; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 85006152457     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2016.10.012     Document Type: Article

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