Assessing variability in hospital-level mortality among U.S. Medicare benefciaries with hospitalizations for severe sepsis and septic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 1753-1760

  Hatfeld, Kelly M ^a   Dantes, Raymund B ^a,b   Baggs, James ^a   Sapiano, Mathew R P ^a   Fiore, Anthony E ^a   Jernigan, John A ^a   Epstein, Lauren ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hospitalization; Mortality; Outcomes; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; HOSPITAL CHARGE; MORTALITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85054744385     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003324     Document Type: Article

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