Prevalence, Underlying Causes, and Preventability of Sepsis-Associated Mortality in US Acute Care Hospitals

JAMA Network Open

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2019, Pages

  Rhee, Chanu ^a,b   Jones, Travis M ^c   Hamad, Yasir ^d   Pande, Anupam ^d   Varon, Jack ^a   O'Brien, Cara ^c   Anderson, Deverick J ^c   Warren, David K ^d   Dantes, Raymund B ^e,f   Epstein, Lauren ^f   Klompas, Michael ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85065327687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25743805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.7571     Document Type: Article

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