Inpatient mortality among solid organ transplant recipients hospitalized for sepsis and severe sepsis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 186-194

  Donnelly, John P ^a,b,c   Locke, Jayme E ^d,e   MacLennan, Paul A ^d,e   McGwin, Gerald ^c   Mannon, Roslyn B ^d,e,f   Safford, Monika M ^g,i   Baddley, John W ^h   Muntner, Paul ^c   Wang, Henry E ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of Preventive Medicine   (United States)

^c University School of Public Health   (United States)

^d Comprehensive Transplant Institute ^*  (United States)

^e Division of Transplantation   (United States)

^f Division of Nephrology   (United States)

^g Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^h University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

ⁱ WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Infection; Outcomes; Sepsis; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS;

EID: 85027484635     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw295     Document Type: Article

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