Longer time to antibiotics and higher mortality among septic patients with non-specific presentations -a cross sectional study of Emergency Department patients indicating that a screening tool may improve identification

BACKGROUND: The presentation of sepsis is varied and our hypotheses were that septic patients with non-specific presentations such as decreased general condition (DGC) have a less favourable outcome, and that a screening tool could increase identification of these patients. We aimed to: 1) assess ti...

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Autores principales: Wallgren, Ulrika Margareta, Antonsson, Viktor Erik, Castrén, Maaret Kaarina, Kurland, Lisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4702378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26733395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-015-0193-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4702378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26733395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-015-0193-0

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