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Initial disease severity and quality of care of emergency department sepsis patients who are older or younger than 70 years of age

OBJECTIVE: Due to atypical symptom presentation older patients are more prone to delayed sepsis recognition. We investigated whether initial disease severity before emergency department (ED) treatment (including treatable acute organ dysfunction), quality of ED sepsis care and the impact on mortalit...

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Autores principales: Warmerdam, Mats, Stolwijk, Frank, Boogert, Anjelica, Sharma, Meera, Tetteroo, Lisa, Lucke, Jacinta, Mooijaart, Simon, Ansems, Annemieke, Esteve Cuevas, Laura, Rijpsma, Douwe, de Groot, Bas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28945774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185214