The most commonly used disease severity scores are inappropriate for risk stratification of older emergency department sepsis patients: an observational multi-centre study

BACKGROUND: Sepsis recognition in older emergency department (ED) patients is difficult due to atypical symptom presentation. We therefore investigated whether the prognostic and discriminative performance of the five most commonly used disease severity scores were appropriate for risk stratificatio...

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Autores principales: de Groot, Bas, Stolwijk, Frank, Warmerdam, Mats, Lucke, Jacinta A., Singh, Gurpreet K., Abbas, Mo, Mooijaart, Simon P., Ansems, Annemieke, Esteve Cuevas, Laura, Rijpsma, Douwe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5594503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28893325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-017-0436-3

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