Presenting symptoms independently predict mortality in septic shock: Importance of a previously unmeasured confounder

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1592-1599

  Filbin, Michael R ^a   Lynch, James ^b   Gillingham, Trent D ^a   Thorsen, Jill E ^a   Pasakarnis, Corey L ^a   Nepal, Saurav ^a   Matsushima, Minoru ^b   Rhee, Chanu ^c   Heldt, Thomas ^b   Reisner, Andrew T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; emergency department; presenting symptoms; septic shock; time to antibiotics; unmeasured confounding

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; URBAN AREA; AGE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEPSIS; TIME TO TREATMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85057609411     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003260     Document Type: Article

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