An overview of mortality risk prediction in sepsis : Critical Care Medicine An overview of
mortality risk prediction in sepsis : Critical Care Medicine SCCM Pediatric Critical Care Medicine …

The annual incidences of severe sepsis in several industrialized nations have recently been
reported to be 50–100 cases per 100,000 persons. These numbers exceed the estimated …

Measurements and Main Results We linked all 1995 state hospital discharge records (n=
6,621,559) from seven large states with population and hospital data from the US Census …

Background Sepsis represents a substantial health care burden, and there is limited
epidemiologic information about the demography of sepsis or about the temporal changes in …

OBJECTIVE: Current biomarkers cannot completely distinguish sepsis from systemic
inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) caused by other non-infectious diseases …

Introduction: Red cell distribution width (RDW) is reflective of systemic inflammation. The
objective of this study was to investigate the association between RDW (on day 1 of …

Objective: Our aim was to determine the frequency and the clinical and epidemiologic
characteristics of sepsis in a hospital-based population in Colombia. Design: Prospective …

PURPOSE: Severe sepsis is a leading cause of death in critically ill patients. We evaluated
cost and workload according to infection site, place and time of acquisition, and severity …

Severe sepsis remains both an important clinical challenge and an economic burden in
intensive care. An estimated 750 000 cases occur each year in the US alone (300 cases per …

Critical care is expensive and accounts for a large share of inpatient expenditures. In the
United States, for example, intensive care units (ICUs) comprise between 5% and 10% of all …