Obesity and Mortality, Length of Stay and Hospital Cost among Patients with Sepsis: A Nationwide Inpatient Retrospective Cohort Study.

Obesity and Mortality, Length of Stay and Hospital Cost among Patients with Sepsis: A Nationwide Inpatient Retrospective Cohort Study.

OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to examine the association between obesity and all-cause mortality, length of stay and hospital cost among patients with sepsis 20 years of age or older. MATERIALS AND METHODS:It was a retrospective cohort study. The dataset was the Nationwide Inpatient Sam...

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Main Authors: Anh Tuan Nguyen, Chu-Lin Tsai, Lu-Yu Hwang, Dejian Lai, Christine Markham, Bela Patel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4849780?pdf=render

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