Bacteremic sepsis leads to higher mortality when adjusting for confounders with propensity score matching

Abstract One can falsely assume that it is well known that bacteremia is associated with higher mortality in sepsis. Only a handful of studies specifically focus on the comparison of culture-negative and culture-positive sepsis with different conclusions depending on study design. The aim of this st...

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Main Authors: Lisa Mellhammar, Fredrik Kahn, Caroline Whitlow, Thomas Kander, Bertil Christensson, Adam Linder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86346-4